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The Ancient Tradition of Geometrical Problems

By Wilbur Richard Knorr

Book information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
1986
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10855894 bytes)
Series
Dover Books on Mathematics
Pages
122\122
Time added
2019-01-14 23:45:14

Description

This highly regarded study focuses on attempts by Hippocrates, Archimedes, other ancient Greeks to solve three classical problems: cube duplication, angle trisection, and circle-quadrature. Topics include origins of the study of conics, introduction of special mechanical curves, use of sliding rulers and calculating procedures, and much more

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