Abstract
Ancient Greek mathematicians were haunted by three problems:
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doubling the cube, that is, finding the cube root of 2;
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trisecting any given angle, say an angle of 60° (of course some angles are easily trisected, for example, one of 90°);
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III
squaring the circle, that is, constructing a square equal in area to that of a given circle.
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Anglin, W.S., Lambek, J. (1995). Constructions with Ruler and Compass. In: The Heritage of Thales. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0803-7_15
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