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Solve history’s unsolvable geometry problems, learn math’s evolution, and challenge giants.
Famous Problems in Geometry and How to Solve Them
and how to solve them
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144 pages
- Release Date
1 August 1982
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Summary
Famous Geometric Challenges: A Journey Through Mathematical History
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.
It took two millennia to prove the impossible; that is, to prove it is not possible to solve some famous Greek problems in the Greek way (using only straight edge and compasses). In the process of trying to sq…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486242972 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486242978 |
| Series: | Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics |
| Author: | Benjamin Bold, A.B. Poland |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 August 1982 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 141mm x 8mm |
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