The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems

Author:Wilbur Richard Knorr
Publisher:Birkhauser
Category:Book

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Languages:English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media:Hardcover
Number Of Items:1
Publication Date:May 1986

ISBN:3764331488
EAN:9783764331481
ASIN:3764331488

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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. 255 black-and-white illustrations. "Essential reading" — Mathematical Reviews. 1986 edition.

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