On display in the second floor student lounge in Deady Hall are four stained glass windows designed by David Jordan and his father while David was a senior math major at the UO (fall/winter 2005).
Each of the designs demonstrates a different mathematical principle. This close-up of one of the panels shows the division of a disk into a number of wedges, and the reassembly of those wedges into a figure that approximates a rectangle. This approximation becomes more and more precise as the wedges become narrower.
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— Lisa Raleigh
photo: Krysten Mayfair
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