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==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=bsst>{{cite journal | last1 = Brooks | first1 = R. L. | author1-link = R. Leonard Brooks | last2 = Smith | first2 = C. A. B. | author2-link = Cedric Smith (statistician) | last3 = Stone | first3 = A. H. | author3-link = Arthur Harold Stone | last4 = Tutte | first4 = W. T. | author4-link = W. T. Tutte | doi = 10.1215/S0012-7094-40-00718-9 | journal = [[Duke Mathematical Journal]] | mr = 3040 | pages = 312β340 | title = The dissection of rectangles into squares | url = https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1077492259 | volume = 7 | year = 1940}}</ref> <ref name=conway>{{cite journal | last = Conway | first = J. H. | author-link = John Horton Conway | doi = 10.1017/S0305004100037877 | bibcode = <!-- intentionally blank --> | journal = [[Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society]] | mr = 167425 | pages = 363β368 | title = Mrs. Perkins's quilt | volume = 60 | issue = 3 | year = 1964}}</ref> <ref name=dfl>{{cite journal | last1 = Duijvestijn | first1 = A. J. W. | last2 = Federico | first2 = P. J. | author2-link = Pasquale Joseph Federico | last3 = Leeuw | first3 = P. | doi = 10.1080/00029890.1982.11995375 | issue = 1 | journal = [[The American Mathematical Monthly]] | jstor = 2320990 | mr = 639770 | pages = 15β32 | title = Compound perfect squares | volume = 89 | year = 1982}}</ref> <ref name=duijvestijn>{{cite journal | last = Duijvestijn | first = A. J. W. | doi = 10.1016/0095-8956(78)90041-2 | issue = 2 | journal = [[Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B]] | mr = 511994 | pages = 240β243 | title = Simple perfect squared square of lowest order | volume = 25 | year = 1978| doi-access = free }}</ref> <ref name=gambini>{{cite journal | last = Gambini | first = Ian | doi = 10.1016/S0166-218X(99)00158-4 | doi-access = free | issue = 1β2 | journal = [[Discrete Applied Mathematics]] | mr = 1723687 | pages = 65β80 | title = A method for cutting squares into distinct squares | volume = 98 | year = 1999}}</ref> <ref name=gardner-tutte>{{cite journal | last = Gardner | first = Martin | date = November 1958 | department = Mathematical Games | issue = 5 | journal = [[Scientific American]] | jstor = 24944827 | pages = 136β144 | title = How rectangles, including squares, can be divided into squares of unequal size | volume = 199| doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican1158-136 }} [[W. T. Tutte]] is not named as an author of the column, but it consists almost entirely of a long multi-paragraph quote credited to Tutte.</ref> <ref name=henle>{{cite journal | last1 = Henle | first1 = Frederick V. | last2 = Henle | first2 = James M. | doi = 10.1080/00029890.2008.11920491 | issue = 1 | journal = [[The American Mathematical Monthly]] | jstor = 27642387 | pages = 3β12 | s2cid = 26663945 | title = Squaring the plane | url = http://www.fredhenle.net/stp/monthly003-012.pdf | volume = 115 | year = 2008}}</ref> <ref name=henry-taylor>{{cite book | last1 = Henry | first1 = J. B. | last2 = Taylor | first2 = P. J. | isbn = 978-1-876420-23-9 | page = 84 | publisher = Australian Mathematics Trust | title = Challenge! 1999 - 2006 Book 2 | year = 2009}}</ref> <ref name=sprague>{{cite journal | last = Sprague | first = R. | doi = 10.1007/BF01580305 | journal = [[Mathematische Zeitschrift]] | mr = 470 | pages = 607β608 | title = Beispiel einer Zerlegung des Quadrats in lauter verschiedene Quadrate | volume = 45 | year = 1939}} English translation by David Moews, "[http://djm.cc/sprague.pdf An example of a dissection of the square into pairwise unequal squares]".</ref> <ref name=trustrum>{{cite journal | last = Trustrum | first = G. B. | doi = 10.1017/s0305004100038573 | bibcode = <!-- intentionally blank --> | journal = [[Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society]] | mr = 170831 | pages = 7β11 | title = Mrs Perkins's quilt | volume = 61 | issue = 1 | year = 1965}}</ref> <ref name=wynn>{{cite journal | last = Wynn | first = Ed | arxiv = 1308.5420 | doi = 10.1016/j.disc.2014.06.022 | journal = [[Discrete Mathematics (journal)|Discrete Mathematics]] | mr = 3240464 | pages = 38β47 | title = Exhaustive generation of 'Mrs. Perkins's quilt' square dissections for low orders | volume = 334 | year = 2014}}</ref> }}
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