Cooking the classics

DOI10.1007/S00283-010-9189-9zbMATH Open1218.00006OpenAlexW2025625310MaRDI QIDQ536607FDOQ536607

Authors Ian Stewart 

Publication date 19 May 2011

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-010-9189-9

zbMATH Keywords

classic and non-traditional proofsirrationality of root twosolution of polynomials by radicalstrisection of anglestwo-squares theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Recreational mathematics (00A08) Popularization of mathematics (00A09) Reasoning and proving in the mathematics classroom (97E50)

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