Found Math: Found by Roger Nelsen (Lewis & Clark College) who wrote, "This poster from an economics conference was recently spotted in Leuven, Belgium. The graphic is a 'proof without words' that the sum of the first $n$ odd numbers is $n^2$, illustrated for the case $n=7$."

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