Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, developed that famous law: the hypotenuse—the long side—of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides. This observation gave rise to mathematicians dividing up the mother triangle into smaller ones—for whatever reason mathematicians divided things up. The process was called “dissection.” Joseph Ray Whelan was thinking of this now as he lay in the woods east of the parking lot at Lone Ridge Park. He was watching the police. Dissection . . .
