The impossible in mathematics
By: Irving Adler.
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Reston, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Geometry -- Famous problems -- Juvenile literature.; Mathematical recreations -- Juvenile literature.; Geometry.; Mathematical recreations.
Description: Brief accounts of historical attempts to prove impossible problems in mathematics, such as the trisection problem, the "fifteen" and "64" puzzles, squaring the circle, etc.
Notes: "Reprinted, with minor editorial changes, from the chapter 'Doing the impossible' in Monkey business, by Irving Adler."