There is one trisection which is of more importance than that of the angle. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Squaring the circle is one of the three great problems of Classical Geometry, along with the trisection of the angle and the duplication of the cube. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Hippias himself used his curve for the trisection of any angle or the division of it in any ratio; but it was afterwards employed by Dinostratus, a brother of Eudoxus's pupil. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
By the second half of the fifth century B.C. they had investigated three famous problems in higher geometry, (1) the squaring of the circle, (2) the trisection of any angle, (3) the duplication of the cube. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Welfare state: The logical result of Western inaction is the trisection of Bosnia into areas controlled by Croats, Serbs and Muslims, who would be squeezed into an area a fraction of the size they once inhabited. From Wordnik.com. [What If We Do Nothing?] Reference
Before that it had been a compendium of various failed angle trisection theorems, and before that, an incredibly long list of the powers of ten and the various words that had been invented to describe the astronomical numbers those powers represented. From Wordnik.com. [Suspicion]
But if he was very persistent, and the chase became too hot, it was easy to draw a red herring across the track, the aforesaid red herring generally taking the shape of one of those venerable questions, which, like the trisection of an angle, or the quadrature of a circle, or the secret of perpetual motion, shall never be finally solved. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
M is the mid point of BC and P is the point of trisection of AC closer to C. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Yet the problem of the trisection is frequently attacked by men of some mathematical education. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
They also attempted to resolve the problems of the trisection of an angle and the duplication of a cube. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
"They were arrested by STF after an encounter from Dubagga trisection here on Thursday night," ADG of Police Brij Lal said. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Into this trisection we shall decompose the coarse unity of the question presented by Van Dale and his Vandals, as though the one sole. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference
It would have been an agreeable task to review the history of circle squaring, of the trisection problem, and of the duplication of the cube. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
The Chinhat police, a team of which was present at the Chinhat trisection, did the rest to arrange for rushing the injured to the Lohia Hospital in Gomtinagar. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Don't allow students to get confused with the trisection of an angle using an unmarked straightedge and a pair of com - passes (which is impossible) and merely trisecting an angle with other tools. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
He talked in 2003 in saber-rattling fashion about going to Iraq, only to abandon his war support when it was politically advantageous-but not until loudly advocating a trisection of the country into permanently warring rival fiefdoms. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
He asserts that as he cannot find any solution to the problem it must have something to do with the squaring of the circle, the duplication of the cube, or the trisection of an angle; at any rate, he has never before seen a puzzle on the principle, and he gives it up. From Wordnik.com. [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference
The three famous problems of antiquity, the duplication of the cube, the quadrature of the circle, and the trisection of the angle, have all been proved by modern mathematics to be insoluble by the rule and compass, which are the instruments assumed in the postulates of Euclid. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
In further proof of the value of the author’s proposed contribution to education, and offered as a gift to the State of Indiana, is the fact of his solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of the cube and quadrature having been already accepted as contributions to science by the American Mathematical Monthly, the leading exponent of mathematical thought in this country. From Wordnik.com. [This is What Happens When the Facts are Fairly Presented - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"As the trisection of the triangle is, perhaps, the simplest of the three problems," said the lecturer, with almost judicial calmness, "we will, if you please, begin with that. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension] Reference
Angle, trisection of, 387. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
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