
Constructibility and the construction of a 17-sided
... 1801, Carl Frederich Gauss published his book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, part of which addressed the problem of dividing the circle[4]. Then in the late 1800s, Felix Klein wrote Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, which builds on Gauss’s results to determine the constructibility of a regular 1 ...
... 1801, Carl Frederich Gauss published his book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, part of which addressed the problem of dividing the circle[4]. Then in the late 1800s, Felix Klein wrote Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, which builds on Gauss’s results to determine the constructibility of a regular 1 ...