Morikawa's unsolved problem

DOI10.1080/00029890.2021.1859919MaRDI QIDQ4964190zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Krumm, Jan E. Holly

Publication date 25 February 2021

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00922

zbMATH Keywords

geometrysangaku problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Japanese mathematics (01A27) Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20)

Abstract: By combining theoretical and computational techniques from geometry, calculus, group theory, and Galois theory, we prove the nonexistence of a closed-form algebraic solution to a Japanese geometry problem first stated in the early nineteenth century. This resolves an outstanding problem from the sangaku tablets which were at one time displayed in temples and shrines throughout Japan.

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