On the history of the three famous problems of antiquity. I: From the beginnings of squaring the circle, cube duplication, angle trisection

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Authors: Thomas Sonar 

Publication date: 12 January 2021

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zbMATH Keywords

EuclidArchimedesPlatoDescartesArchytasHippocratesAnaxagorasclassical geometry problemsEudemosProclos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

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