Famous Problems and Other Monographs

ISBN-13: 9780821826744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 321 str.

Felix Klein; W. F. Sheppard

Opis

Gives an understandable account of the famous problems of Geometry - The Duplication of the Cube, Trisection of the Angle, Squaring of the Circle - and the proofs that these cannot be solved by ruler and compass. This work includes problems about transcendental numbers, the existence of such numbers, and proofs of the transcendence of $e$.