Greek and Arabic constructions of the regular heptagon

DOI10.1007/BF00328123zbMath0587.01010MaRDI QIDQ5903042

Jan P. Hogendijk

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conic sectionsregular heptagonneusis-construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03)

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Arabic traces of lost works of Apollonius ⋮ The Reinterpretation and Visualization for Geometric Methods of Solving the Cubic Equation ⋮ Incommensurability, the heptagon of Ignacio Muñoz (1684), and Kepler's heresy ⋮ Gothic construction and the Traça of a heptagonal apse: the problem of the heptagon ⋮ Abū al-Wafā' Latinus? A study of method ⋮ Two editions of Ibn al-Haytham's `Completion of the Conics'

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