Two Trisectrices for the Price of One Rolling Coin

DOI10.2307/2687014MaRDI QIDQ5716318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1993

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2687014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Review text

A trisectrix is a curve which can be used to trisect an angle. Two of such curves can be obtained by rolling one coin around another one. The main tool are isometries.

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