A History of Folding in Mathematics: Mathematizing the Margins

by Michael Friedman

Book Overview

While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030102092
• ISBN13: 9783030102098
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"