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David S. Richeson, “Tales of Impossibility” (Princeton UP, 2019)

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Episode • Oct 30, 2019 • 50m
David S. Richeson‘s book Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2019) is the fascinating story of the 2000 year quest to solve four of the most perplexing problems of antiquity: squaring the circle, duplicating the cube, trisecting the angle, and...

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