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A history of mathematical impossibility / Jesper Lützen

Author
Lützen, Jesper
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Summary
Many of the most famous results in mathematics are impossibility theorems stating that something cannot be done. Good examples include the quadrature of the circle by ruler and compass, the solution of the quintic equation by radicals, Fermat's last theorem, and the impossibility of proving the parallel postulate from the other axioms of Euclidean geometry. This book tells the history of these and many other impossibility theorems starting with the ancient Greek proof of the incommensurability of the side and the diagonal in a square.
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ISBN
9780191959479 ebook
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
Previously issued in print: 2022.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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