Shape theft

Shape theft is a crime against mathematical constants in which a fundamental shape, often a triangle, is "stolen" from a volume of space.

Famous examples of shape theft include:

• The near-instantaneous disassembly of the Eiffel Tower (triangle theft)
• The delapidation of the Great Pyramid at Cheops (cuboid theft)
• The simultaneous multiple abductions of the Hula Hoop craze and the Frisbee craze (circle theft)

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Mathematics (nonfiction)