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This highly regarded study focuses on attempts by Hippocrates, Archimedes, other ancient Greeks to solve three classical problems: cube duplication, angle trisection, and circle-quadrature. Topics include origins of the study of conics, introduction of special mechanical curves, use of sliding rulers and calculating procedures, and much more. 255 black-and-white illustrations. "Essential reading" — Mathematical Reviews. 1986 edition.
| ISBN: | 9780486675329 |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications, Inc. |
| Pub date: | 01 Sep 1993 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| DEWEY: | 516.204 |
| DEWEY edition: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 416 |
| Weight: | 575g |
| Height: | 235mm |
| Width: | 156mm |
| Spine width: | 21mm |
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