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(2018) A history of folding in mathematics, Basel, Birkhäuser.
Since Antiquity, and initially in ancient Greece, solutions have been sought for the following three problems, using only compass and straightedge: (1) the squaring of the circle: construct a square equal in area to a circle; (2) the duplication of the cube: given a cube, construct the edge of a second cube whose volume is double that of the first; (3) the trisection of an angle: divide an arbitrary angle into three equal angles.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72487-4_1
Full citation:
Friedman, M. (2018). Introduction, in A history of folding in mathematics, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 1-28.