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by Benjamin Bold
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ISBN: 0486242978 Dover Publications Price: $6.95 |
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Each chapter devoted to single type of problem with accompanying commentary and set of practice problems. Amateur puzzlists, students of mathematics and geometry will enjoy this rare opportunity to match wits with civilization’s great mathematicians and witness the invention of modern mathematics.
Table of Contents for Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them
| 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 |