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    The quadratrix or trisectrix of Hippias (also quadratrix of Dinostratus) is a curve which is created by a uniform motion. It is one of the oldest examples...
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  • that Hippias had no authoritative basis on his work. A mathematical discovery ascribed to Hippias is sometimes called the quadratrix of Hippias. His great...
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  • Quadratrix. Quadratrix of Hippias Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine at the MacTutor archive. Hippias' Quadratrix at Convergence Archived 2020-09-08...
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    theorem uses the quadratrix of Hippias to square the circle, meaning that if this curve is somehow already given, then a square and circle of equal areas can...
    45 KB (4,925 words) - 23:56, 15 November 2024
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    Euclid (redirect from Euclid of Alexandria)
    Apollonius of Perga, Euclid is generally considered among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity, and one of the most influential in the history of mathematics...
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  • Archimedean Spiral Quadratrix of Hippias Sectrix of Maclaurin Sectrix of Ceva Sectrix of Delanges Doubling the cube Neusis construction Quadratrix Loy, Jim "Trisection...
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    Chiliagon (category Polygons by the number of sides)
    construction of a chiliagon requires other techniques such as the quadratrix of Hippias, Archimedean spiral, or other auxiliary curves. For example, a 9°...
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    ISBN 978-3-9522917-1-9. 65537-gon, exact construction for the 1st side, using the Quadratrix of Hippias and GeoGebra as additional aids, with brief description (German)...
    16 KB (2,191 words) - 08:42, 26 October 2024
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    65537-gon (category Polygons by the number of sides)
    steps 65537-gon, exact construction for the 1st side, using the Quadratrix of Hippias and GeoGebra as additional aids, with brief description (German)...
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    range of the entire multivalued function W is the complex plane. The image of the real axis is the union of the real axis and the quadratrix of Hippias, the...
    74 KB (11,899 words) - 22:21, 5 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Limaçon trisectrix
    of Nicomedes, the Cycloid of Ceva, Quadratrix of Hippias, Trisectrix of Maclaurin, and Tschirnhausen cubic. The limaçon trisectrix a special case of a...
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    of the classic construction problems. Angle trisection, for instance, can be done in many ways, several known to the ancient Greeks. The Quadratrix of...
    33 KB (4,921 words) - 01:52, 1 December 2024
  • Pythion Pythion of Megara Pythius of Priene Python (mythology) Python (painter) Python of Aenus Pytia Pyxis (vessel) Quadratrix of Hippias Quantitative metathesis...
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    mostly from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD, around the shores of the Mediterranean. Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread over the entire...
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  • Thumbnail for The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems
    curves, and the use of the Quadratrix of Hippias for trisecting angles and squaring circles. Some specific theories on the authorship of Greek mathematics...
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    Icositrigon (category Polygons by the number of sides)
    23 is not a Pierpont prime, nor a power of two or three. It can be constructed using the quadratrix of Hippias, Archimedean spiral, and other auxiliary...
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    257-gon (category Polygons by the number of sides)
    New York: Dover, pp. 352–386, 1955. 257-gon, exact construction the 1st side using the quadratrix according of Hippias as an additional aid (German)...
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  • mathematician and pupil of Neocleides, who was active from around 370 to 340 BCE. His book Elements was overshadowed by Euclid's work of the same name. Proclus...
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  • that the trisectrix of Hippias serves to square the circle, the curve more commonly came to be known as the quadratrix. It was, of course, always clear...
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  • Thumbnail for A History of Greek Mathematics
    A History of Greek Mathematics is a book by English historian of mathematics Thomas Heath about history of Greek mathematics. It was published in Oxford...
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