A Brief History of Impossibility

DOI10.1080/0025570X.2008.11953524MaRDI QIDQ3520565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeff Suzuki

Publication date 26 August 2008

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570x.2008.11953524

zbMATH Keywords

constructing a regular heptagondoubling the cubeimpossibility of solving the three problems of antiquityruler and straightedge constructionssquaring the circletrisecting an angle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General histories, source books (01A05)

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