Year: 1908
Type: article
Abstract: The possibility of solving the problem of the elementary division of a circumference into equal parts was known to the ancients for the cases n = 2 p , n = 3, n = 5, and their products. Gauss in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae proved the possibility of solving the problem by quadratics, and therefore geometrically with ruler and the compass, for all the prime numbers of the series n = 2 2 p + 1.
Source: The Mathematical Gazette
DOI: 10.2307/3602018
Author: Camillo Manzitti
Language: English
Topic: Mathematics and Applications
Subfield: Geometry and Topology
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2797427489