Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them~tqw~ darksiderg

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Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them
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Release NotesEach chapter devoted to single type of problem with accompanying commentary and
set of practice problems. Amateur puzzlists, students of mathematics and
geometry will enjoy this rare opportunity to match wits with civilization's
great mathematicians and witness the invention of modern mathematics.

Table Of Contents

Foreword ix
I Achievement of the Ancient Greeks 1
II An Analytic Criterion for Constructibility 7
III Complex Numbers 19
IV The Delian Problem 29
V The Problem of Trisecting an Angle 33
VI The Problem of Squaring the Circle 39
VII The Problem of Constructing Regular Polygons 49
VIII Concluding Remarks 73
Suggestions for Further Reading 81
Solutions to the Problems 85

Product Details

* ISBN: 0486242978
* ISBN-13: 9780486242972
* Format: Paperback, 128pp
* Publisher: Dover Publications
* Pub. Date: March 1982
* Edition Description: Dover ed., Unabridged and slightly corr.
* Edition Number: 1
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