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2000 years unsolved: Why is doubling cubes and squaring circles impossible?

Today's video is about the resolution of four problems that remained open for over 2000 years from when they were first puzzled over in ancient Greece: Is it possible, just using an ideal mathematical ruler and an ideal mathematical compass, to double cubes, trisect angles, construct regular heptagons, or to square circles?

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  • Originally Aired June 29, 2019
  • Runtime 11 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created June 30, 2019 by
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  • Modified June 30, 2019 by
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