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 ...

If you've read my columns before, you know I have a thing for cutting into thirds. With Thanksgiving upon us my family will no doubt be faced with a dilemma: there's one slice of pumpkin pie left; how ...

This is the season for trisecting angles and other such exercises. This is how you do it: Construct an angle, any angle. Bisect it. At a point, any point, on the line of bisection, draw lines to sides ...

THIS is an enlarged and beautifully produced edition of a pamphlet which has been circulated before under the simpler title “The Trisection of an Angle”. Since Euclid cannot be supposed to have ...

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The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

THE Paralogistes pseudomathematicus has become so rare, or possibly so shy, that it is a real pleasure to find that the species is not extinct. Alack! that De Morgan is not with us, to do justice to ...