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Famous problems of elementary geometry : the duplication of the cube, the trisection of an angle, the quadrature of the circle
- Title
- Famous problems of elementary geometry : the duplication of the cube, the trisection of an angle, the quadrature of the circle / Felix Klein, translation by Wooster Woodruff Beman and David Eugene Smith.
- Author
- Klein, Felix, 1849-1925.
- Publication
- New York, Dover Publications [1956]
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| Book/Text | Use in library | 81691.525.11 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 92 pages illustrations; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Dover books T298.T348
- Uniform Title
- Vorträge über ausgewahlte Fragen der Elementargeometrie. English
- Alternative Title
- Vorträge über ausgewahlte Fragen der Elementargeometrie.
- Subject
- Note
- "S298."
- Translation of Vorträge über ausgewahlte Fragen der Elementargeometrie.
- "Unabridged and unaltered republication of the second revised edition ... enlarged ... by Raymond Clare Archibald [1930]"
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- Contents
- PART 1 : 1. Algebraic Equations Solvable by Square Roots -- 2. The Delian Problem and the Trisection of the Angle -- 3. The Division of the Circle into Equal Parts -- 4. The Construction of the Regular Polygon of 17 Sides -- 5. General Considerations on Algebraic Constructions -- PART 2 : 1. Cantor's Demonstration of the Existence of Transcendental Numbers -- 2. Historical Survey of the Attempts at the Computation and Construction of Pi -- 3. The Transcendence of the Number e -- 4. The Transcendence of the Number Pi -- 5. The Intergraph and the Geometric Constructions of Pi.
- LCCN
- 63006120
- OCLC
- ocm00562348
- 562348
- SCSB-288183
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library