# Proofs Without Words - References - Acknowledgments - About the Authors

Author(s):
Tim Doyle (Whitman College), Lauren Kutler (Whitman College), Robin Miller (Whitman College), and Albert Schueller (Whitman College)

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### Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Moira Gresham, a member of the Department of Physics at Whitman College, and E. Sonny Elizondo, a member of the Department of Philosophy at UC Santa Barbara, for their thoughtful feedback on this paper.