Undaunted by the fact that mathematicians have slaved for centuries over the problem of trisecting an angle, Harvey "Scott" Sleeper '42, of Eliot House pondered about it in his spare time and has at ...

THIS is an enlarged and beautifully produced edition of a pamphlet which has been circulated before under the simpler title “The Trisection of an Angle”. Since Euclid cannot be supposed to have ...

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IN your issue of August 22, Mr. A. B. Basset asks for solutions of the two problems, the trisection of an angle by means of the cissoid, and the duplication of the cube by the conchoid. I happened to ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...