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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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Additional Authors
  • Archibald, Raymond Clare, 1875-1955
  • Beman, Wooster Woodruff, 1850-1922
  • Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944
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
  • Geometry > Famous problems
  • Geometry > Famous problems
  • Geometria
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