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Wonders of Ancient Greek Mathematics

(and maybe some not so wonderful but still cool stuff)

By Timothy Reluga
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Preface

Enigma's of the Past

  • Squaring the Circle

  • Doubling the Cube

  • Trisecting the Angle

    • Elegant Proofs and Methods of Ancient Ones

  • Pythagorus's Theorem

  • The Golden Section

  • Splitting the prism and the Method of Exhaustions

  • Archimede's Spiral

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    Technical References