Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry (Dover Phoenix Editions)

Klein, Felix

ISBN 10: 0486495515 / ISBN 13: 9780486495514

Editore: Dover Publications, 2003

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Blue hardcover. Very good a few ex-library stamps on top edge, and inside rear cover. Tightly bound and clean with unmarked text.

Codice articolo X9B-29908

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• Titolo: Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry (Dover Phoenix Editions)
• Editore: Dover Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486495515
• ISBN 13: 9780486495514
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

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.