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Underwood Dudley is a number theorist, who is perhaps best known for his popular books on mathematics. The most famous one is A Budget of Trisections, which studies the many failed attempts at the ancient problem of trisecting an angle with only a ruler and a compass [44]. This problem is impossible, yet that has not stopped some people from working day and night looking for a solution. Trying to find such a solution is an obsession for some; it’s almost like they have a malady that forces them to work on the problem.
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Lipton, R.J. (2010). Mathematical Diseases. In: The P=NP Question and Gödel’s Lost Letter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7155-5_43
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