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Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry (Dover Phoenix Editions) Hardcover - 2003

by Felix Klein


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Widely regarded as a classic of modern mathematics, this expanded version of Felix Klein's celebrated 1894 lectures uses contemporary techniques to examine three famous problems of antiquity: doubling the volume of a cube, trisecting an angle, and squaring a circle. Today's students will find this volume of particular interest in its answers to such questions as: Under what circumstances is a geometric construction possible? By what means can a geometric construction be effected? What are transcendental numbers, and how can you prove that "e" and "pi "are transcendental? The straightforward treatment requires no higher knowledge of mathematics. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1930 second edition.

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  • Title Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry (Dover Phoenix Editions)
  • Author Felix Klein
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2 Revised
  • Publisher Dover Publications
  • Date December 15, 2003
  • ISBN 9780486495514
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by By Felix Klein. Authorized Translation by Wooster Woodruff Beman and David Eugene Smith; Second Edition Revised, and Englarged with Notes by Raymond Clare Archibald.

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Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry (Dover Phoenix Editions): The Duplication of the Cube; The Trisection of an Angle; The Quadrature of the Circle. By Felix Klein. An Authorized Translation of F. Klein's Vortrage Uber Ausgewahlte Fragen der Elementargeometrie ausgearbeitet Von F. Tagert, by Wooster Woodruff Beman and David Eugene Smith; Second Edition Revised, and Englarged with Notes by Raymond Clare Archibald. Dover Phoenix Editions published by Dover Publications, Inc. in 2003. Hardcover.
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