Remarks on Laczkovich’s Circle-Squaring Proof

Abstract

This paper, as advertised, contains none of my own work, but is an attempt to relay some of the flavor of the remarkable solution my friend Miklós Laczkovich has given to a 1925 problem of Alfred Tarski. As most of my knowledge of the history of this problem is directly attributable to Mik, I’ll quote him rather liberally throughout this paper. I’ll begin with the introductory remarks to his paper Equidecomposability and discrepancy; a solution to Tarski’s circle squaring problem which will appear (or perhaps already has appeared) in Crelle’s Journal.