Why was Wantzel overlooked for a century? The changing importance of an impossibility result

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2009.03.001zbMath1181.01034OpenAlexW1980402370WikidataQ60017045 ScholiaQ60017045MaRDI QIDQ1045847

Jesper Luetzen

Publication date: 16 December 2009

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2009.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

impossibility resultsangle trisectionduplication of the cube

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in real and complex fields: factorization (12D05) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Historiography (01A85)

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• Paolo Ruffini's contributions to the quintic
• Julius Petersen 1839--1910. A biography
• Modern algebra and the rise of mathematical structures
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