Amateur puzzlists as well as students of mathematics and geometry will relish this rare opportunity to match wits with Archimedes, Euclid, Newton, Descartes, and other great mathematicians. Each chapter explores an individual type of geometric challenge, with commentary and practice problems, and reveals a milestone in the development of mathematics. Solutions.
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Höhe: 215 mm
Breite: 137 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
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978-0-486-24297-2 (9780486242972)
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Foreword
I Achievement of the Ancient Greeks
II An Analytic Criterion for Constructibility
III Complex Numbers
IV The Delian Problem
V The Problem of Trisecting an Angle
VI The Problem of Squaring the Circle
VII The Problem of Constructing Regular Polygons
VIII Concluding Remarks
Suggestions for Further Reading
Solutions to the Problems
