Many a mathematician has received a long letter from an unknown sender who claims to have found a way to trisect an angle using only a straightedge and compass. The mathematician may read passages of ...

Undaunted by the fact that mathematicians have slaved for centuries over the problem of trisecting an angle, Harvey "Scott" Sleeper '42, of Eliot House pondered about it in his spare time and has at ...

THE following discussion gives simple methods of directly trisecting angles which do not exceed 180°. The relations on which the methods are based, hold, however, up to 270°, but it would be difficult ...

A general method for the geometric trisection of angles and arcs, with accompanying diagrams; supplemented with a formal proof and a trigonometrical analysis. By William H. Stoops .. Smithsonian ...

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