Famous Problems in Geometry and How to Solve Them

Benjamin Bold (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2003
Dover Publications Inc. (Verlag)
9780486242972 (ISBN)

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Delve into the development of modern mathematics and match wits with Euclid, Newton, Descartes, and others. Each chapter explores an individual type of challenge, with commentary and practice problems. Solutions.

Amateur puzzlists as well as students of mathematics and geometry will relish this rare opportunity to match wits with Archimedes, Euclid, Newton, Descartes, and other great mathematicians. Each chapter explores an individual type of geometric challenge, with commentary and practice problems, and reveals a milestone in the development of mathematics. Solutions.

Foreword
I Achievement of the Ancient Greeks
II An Analytic Criterion for Constructibility
III Complex Numbers
IV The Delian Problem
V The Problem of Trisecting an Angle
VI The Problem of Squaring the Circle
VII The Problem of Constructing Regular Polygons
VIII Concluding Remarks
Suggestions for Further Reading
Solutions to the Problems

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.2003
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 215 mm
Gewicht	185 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
ISBN-13	9780486242972 / 9780486242972
Zustand	Neuware