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Highly-regarded study focuses on ancient Greek efforts to solve the 3 classical problems of cube duplication, angle trisection and circle-quadrature by such famed mathematicians as Hippocrates of Chios, Eudoxus, Archimedes and Apollonius, and spans virtually the entire period of ancient geometry. "Essential reading" Mathematical Reviews. 1986 edition. Bibliography. Includes 255 black-and-white illustrations.Knorr, Wilbur R. is the author of 'Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems' with ISBN 9780486675329 and ISBN 0486675327.
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