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Istor.-Mat. Issled., Ser. 2, 2014 Issue 15(50), Pages 65–79 (Mi imi8)

MATHEMATICS IN ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES

How were found some solutions of the problem of duplication of cube?

A. I. Shchetnikov

Novosibirsk

Abstract: The author gives a new reconstruction of the ways on which the solutions of the problem of duplication of cube were found by Greek mathematicians and F. Viet. Rather than following the details of Eutocius' report, which provides demonstrations without explanation of how they were found, he makes his reconstructions using geometrical interpretations of the problem previously reformulated in terms of a continuous proportion.



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