1. Trisection Of An Angle And that makes it equivalent to the attempted trisection 1 above, and is not areal trisection of angle A. Again, this is not a real trisection of angle A. http://www.jimloy.com/geometry/trisect.htm

Return to my Mathematics pages Go to my home page Trisection of an Angle Under construction (just kidding, sort of). This page is divided into seven parts: Part I - Possible vs. Impossible Part II - The Rules Part III - Close, But No Banana Part IV - "Cheating" (violating the rules) ... Part VIII - Comments Part I - Possible vs. Impossible In Plane Geometry, constructions are done with compasses (for drawing circles and arcs, and duplicating lengths, sometime called "a compass") and straightedge (without marks on it, for drawing straight line segments through two points). See Geometric Constructions . With these tools (see the diagram), an amazing number of things can be done. But, it is fairly well known that it is impossible to trisect (divide into three equal parts) a general angle, using these tools. Another way to say this is that a general arc cannot be trisected. The public and the newspapers seem to think that this means that mathematicians don't know how to trisect an angle; well they don't, not with these tools. What can be done with these tools? Given a length

2. The Trisection Of An Angle The trisection of an angle. In particular, the equation for degrees cannot be solvedby ruler and compass and thus the trisection of the angle is not possible. http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/node57.html

Next: Which are the Up: Famous Problems in Mathematics Previous: The Four Colour Theorem The Trisection of an Angle This problem, together with Doubling the Cube Constructing the regular Heptagon and Squaring the Circle were posed by the Greeks in antiquity, and remained open until modern times. The solution to all of them is rather inelegant from a geometric perspective. No geometric proof has been offered [check?], however, a very clever solution was found using fairly basic results from extension fields and modern algebra. It turns out that trisecting the angle is equivalent to solving a cubic equation. Constructions with ruler and compass may only compute the solution of a limited set of such equations, even when restricted to integer coefficients. In particular, the equation for degrees cannot be solved by ruler and compass and thus the trisection of the angle is not possible. It is possible to trisect an angle using a compass and a ruler marked in 2 places. Suppose X is a point on the unit circle such that is the angle we would like to ``trisect''. Draw a line

3. The Trisection Of An Angle The trisection of an angle. Theorem 4. The trisection of the angle byan unmarked ruler and compass alone is in general not possible. http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/mathtext/node28.html

Next: Which are the 23 Up: Famous Problems in Mathematics Previous: The Four Colour Theorem The Trisection of an Angle Theorem 4. The trisection of the angle by an unmarked ruler and compass alone is in general not possible. This problem, together with Doubling the Cube Constructing the regular Heptagon and Squaring the Circle were posed by the Greeks in antiquity, and remained open until modern times. The solution to all of them is rather inelegant from a geometric perspective. No geometric proof has been offered [check?], however, a very clever solution was found using fairly basic results from extension fields and modern algebra. It turns out that trisecting the angle is equivalent to solving a cubic equation. Constructions with ruler and compass may only compute the solution of a limited set of such equations, even when restricted to integer coefficients. In particular, the equation for theta = 60 degrees cannot be solved by ruler and compass and thus the trisection of the angle is not possible. It is possible to trisect an angle using a compass and a ruler marked in 2 places.

4. Trisection Of An Angle By David Wayne Subject trisection of an angle Author David Wayne stick@ccomm.com Date 28 Jun 98 170337 0400 (EDT) Ok, ever http://mathforum.com/epigone/geometry-puzzles/chendswoljil/r4gkidb42087@forum.sw

Trisection of an angle by David Wayne reply to this message post a message on a new topic Back to messages on this topic Back to geometry-puzzles Subject: Trisection of an angle Author: stick@ccomm.com Date: The Math Forum

5. Angle Trisection (Alex LopezOrtiz) Subject sci.math FAQ The trisection of an angle Summary Part 18 of 31, New version Message-ID http://www.hverrill.net/pages~helena/origami/trisect

http://hverrill.net/pages~helena/origami/trisect/ Origami Trisection of an angle How can you trisect an angle? It can be shown it's impossible to do this with ruler and compass alone, (using Galois theory) - so don't try it!!! But you may be able to find some good approximations. However, in origami, you can get accurate trisection of an acute angle. You can read about this in several places, but since it's so neat, I thought I'd put instructions up here too - more people should be able to do this for a party trick! Jim Loy has informed me that this construction is due to to Hisashi Abe in 1980, (see "Geometric Constructions" by George E. Martin). See Jim Loy's page at http://www.jimloy.com/geometry/trisect.htm for a description of many other ways to trisec an angle. Since we're working with origami, the angle is in a piece of paper: So what we want is to find how to fold along these dotted lines: Note, if you don't start with a square, you can always make a square, here's the idea. We're going to trisect this angle by folding. I'm going to try and describe this in a way so that you'll remember what to do. Suppose we could put three congruent triangles in the picture as shown: These triangles trisect the angle. So we need to know how to get them there.

6. Trisection Of An Angle Using Geometry a topic from geometrypuzzles trisection of an angle Using Geometry post a message on this topic post a message on a new topic 29 Aug 1999 trisection of an angle Using Geometry, by Bruce http://mathforum.com/epigone/geometry-puzzles/jehpumdweld

a topic from geometry-puzzles Trisection of an Angle Using Geometry post a message on this topic post a message on a new topic 29 Aug 1999 Trisection of an Angle Using Geometry , by Bruce 29 Aug 1999 Re: Trisection of an Angle Using Geometry , by John Conway The Math Forum

7. The Trisection Of An Angle The trisection of an angle. This problem, together with Doubling the Cube, Constructing the regular Heptagon and http://cage.rug.ac.be/~hvernaev/FAQ/node29.html

Next: Which are the Up: Famous Problems in Mathematics Previous: The Four Colour Theorem The Trisection of an Angle This problem, together with Doubling the Cube Constructing the regular Heptagon and Squaring the Circle were posed by the Greeks in antiquity, and remained open until modern times. The solution to all of them is rather inelegant from a geometric perspective. No geometric proof has been offered [check?], however, a very clever solution was found using fairly basic results from extension fields and modern algebra. It turns out that trisecting the angle is equivalent to solving a cubic equation. Constructions with ruler and compass may only compute the solution of a limited set of such equations, even when restricted to integer coefficients. In particular, the equation for degrees cannot be solved by ruler and compass and thus the trisection of the angle is not possible. It is possible to trisect an angle using a compass and a ruler marked in 2 places. Suppose X is a point on the unit circle such that is the angle we would like to ``trisect''. Draw a line

8. Sci.math FAQ: The Trisection Of An Angle sci.math FAQ The trisection of an angle. Newsgroups Figure 7.1 Trisectionof the Angle with a marked ruler Let theta be angle BAO. Then http://isc.faqs.org/faqs/sci-math-faq/trisection/

sci.math FAQ: The Trisection of an Angle Newsgroups: sci.math news.answers sci.answers From: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) Subject: sci.math Ep1yKz.B04@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Followup-To: sci.math alopez-o@unb.ca http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o Assistant Professor Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick By Archive-name By Author By Category By Newsgroup ... Help Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Last Update March 05 2003 @ 01:20 AM

9. Trisection Of An Angle a topic from geometrypuzzles trisection of an angle post a message on this topic post a message on a new topic 28 Jun 1998 trisection of an angle, by David Wayne 29 Jun 1998 Re trisection of an angle, by John Conway The Math Forum http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/geometry-puzzles/chendswoljil

a topic from geometry-puzzles Trisection of an angle post a message on this topic post a message on a new topic 28 Jun 1998 Trisection of an angle , by David Wayne 29 Jun 1998 Re: Trisection of an angle , by John Conway The Math Forum

10. Angle Trisection Origami trisection of an angle. How can you trisect an angle? However,in origami, you can get accurate trisection of an acute angle. http://hverrill.net/pages~helena/origami/trisect/

http://hverrill.net/pages~helena/origami/trisect/ Origami Trisection of an angle How can you trisect an angle? It can be shown it's impossible to do this with ruler and compass alone, (using Galois theory) - so don't try it!!! But you may be able to find some good approximations. However, in origami, you can get accurate trisection of an acute angle. You can read about this in several places, but since it's so neat, I thought I'd put instructions up here too - more people should be able to do this for a party trick! Jim Loy has informed me that this construction is due to to Hisashi Abe in 1980, (see "Geometric Constructions" by George E. Martin). See Jim Loy's page at http://www.jimloy.com/geometry/trisect.htm for a description of many other ways to trisec an angle. Since we're working with origami, the angle is in a piece of paper: So what we want is to find how to fold along these dotted lines: Note, if you don't start with a square, you can always make a square, here's the idea. We're going to trisect this angle by folding. I'm going to try and describe this in a way so that you'll remember what to do. Suppose we could put three congruent triangles in the picture as shown: These triangles trisect the angle. So we need to know how to get them there.

11. Trisection Of An Angle A proof of how to trisect an angle using a straight edge, a compass, and successive approximations. I have proved the trisection of an angle using successive approximations! http://trevorstone.org/trisection.html

Essays Poetry Schoolwork Elizabethan Curses ... More Trisection by Successive Approximation Note I wrote this a couple years ago while I was taking geometry. I know it is not precise, but it is nice to see. At last! I have proved the trisection of an angle using successive approximations! This is set up for a graphical browser. If you don't have a graphical browser, you MAY be able to follow it, but it would be a good idea to download the picture. If you wish to be more accurate, split the arc into 6 segments, then 9, etc. Then take the endpoint of the segment one third the distance from the midpoint (with 3 segments it would be the segment next to the midpoint, with 6 the second segment from the midpoint, etc.) and connect it to the vertex. Congratulations! You have just trisected an angle using successive approximations. The exactness depends on how many segments you split the arc into. Back to my homepage Created by Trevor Stone Last modified: March 30 2002 17:18:59 Nothing feels better. an underwear commercial

12. Sci.math FAQ: The Trisection Of An Angle Subject sci.math FAQ The trisection of an angle. Figure 7.1 Trisectionof the Angle with a marked ruler Let theta be angle BAO. http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/sci-math-faq/trisection.html

Note from archivist@cs.uu.nl : This page is part of a big collection of Usenet postings, archived here for your convenience. For matters concerning the content of this page , please contact its author(s); use the source , if all else fails. For matters concerning the archive as a whole, please refer to the archive description or contact the archivist. Subject: sci.math FAQ: The Trisection of an Angle This article was archived around: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:38:59 GMT All FAQs in Directory: sci-math-faq All FAQs posted in: sci.math Source: Usenet Version Archive-name: sci-math-faq/trisection Last-modified: February 20, 1998 Version: 7.5 http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o Assistant Professor Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick

13. Trisection Of An Angle see. At last! I have proved the trisection of an angle using successiveapproximations! This is set up for a graphical browser. http://www.flwyd.dhs.org/trisection.html

Essays Poetry Schoolwork Elizabethan Curses ... More Trisection by Successive Approximation Note I wrote this a couple years ago while I was taking geometry. I know it is not precise, but it is nice to see. At last! I have proved the trisection of an angle using successive approximations! This is set up for a graphical browser. If you don't have a graphical browser, you MAY be able to follow it, but it would be a good idea to download the picture. If you wish to be more accurate, split the arc into 6 segments, then 9, etc. Then take the endpoint of the segment one third the distance from the midpoint (with 3 segments it would be the segment next to the midpoint, with 6 the second segment from the midpoint, etc.) and connect it to the vertex. Congratulations! You have just trisected an angle using successive approximations. The exactness depends on how many segments you split the arc into. Back to my homepage Created by Trevor Stone Last modified: March 30 2002 17:18:59 Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

14. Trisection Of An Angle. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. trisection of an angle. seegeometric problems of antiquity. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. http://www.bartleby.com/65/x-/X-trisecti.html

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Index sci.math FAQ: The Trisection of an Angle Subject : sci.math FAQ: The Trisection of an Angle From alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) Date : Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:38:59 GMT Newsgroups sci.math news.answers sci.answers Sender news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Summary : Part 18 of 31, New version http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o Assistant Professor Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick Index: Index sci-math-faq.trisection

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Trisection Of An Angle Library Home Full Table of Contents Suggest a Link Library Help Visit this site: http://www.jimloy.com/geometry/trisect.htm Author: Jim Loy Description: A discussion of what can and can't be constructed using compasses (for drawing circles and arcs, and duplicating lengths) and straight-edge (without marks on it, for drawing straight line segments). Levels: Middle School (6-8) High School (9-12) Languages: English Resource Types: Articles Math Topics: Constructions Suggestion Box Home The Math Library ... Search http://mathforum.org/ webmaster@mathforum.org

19. Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math FAQ: "Impossible" Geometric Constructions geometric construction problems from antiquity puzzled mathematicians for centuriesthe trisection of an angle, squaring the circle, and duplicating the cube. http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.impossible.construct.html

Ask Dr. Math: FAQ I mpossible G eometric C onstructions Dr. Math FAQ Classic Problems Formulas Search Dr. Math ... Doubling the cube Three geometric construction problems from antiquity puzzled mathematicians for centuries: the trisection of an angle, squaring the circle, and duplicating the cube. Are these constructions impossible? Whether these problems are possible or impossible depends on the construction "rules" you follow. In the time of Euclid, the rules for constructing these and other geometric figures allowed the use of only an unmarked straightedge and a collapsible compass. No markings for measuring were permitted on the straightedge (ruler), and the compass could not hold a setting, so it had to be thought of as collapsing when it was not in the process of actually drawing a part of a circle. Following these rules, the first two problems were proved impossible by Wantzel in 1837, although their impossibility was already known to Gauss around 1800. The third problem was proved to be impossible by Lindemann in 1882.

20. Šp‚ÌŽO“™•ª Trisection Of An Angle The summary for this Japanese page contains characters that cannot be correctly displayed in this language/character set. http://www.nn.iij4u.or.jp/~hsat/misc/math/trisect.html

Šp‚ÌŽO“™•ª trisection of an angle February, 2nd March, 2001. ”CˆÓ‚ÌŠp‚ðŽO“™•ª‚·‚邱‚Æ [Šp‚ÌŽO“™•ª–â‘è] ”CˆÓ‚̉~‚Æ“™‚µ‚¢‘ÌÏ‚ðŽ‚Â³•ûŒ`‚ðì‚邱‚Æ [‰~Ï–â‘è quadrature of a circle] ¡—^‚¦‚ç‚ꂽ (‰s) Šp‚ð AOB ‚Æ‚µ‚悤B ‚±‚±‚Å OA ‚͏‰‚ß‚É—^‚¦‚ç‚ꂽ•¨·‚µ‚É•t‚¢‚Ä‚¢‚é“ñ‰ÓŠ‚̈ó‚Ì’·‚³‚É‚Æ‚éB ‚»‚µ‚Ä“_ A ‚©‚ç OB ‚É•½s‚Ȑü‚ðˆø‚­B A ‚𒆐S‚Æ‚µ‚Ä, ”¼Œa OA ‚̉~‚ð•`‚­B æ‚É A ‚©‚çˆø‚¢‚½•½süã‚É“_ C ‚ð‚Æ‚è, OC ‚Æ‚ÌŒð“_‚ð D ‚Æ‚·‚é‚Æ‚«, CD ‚ª OA ‚Æ“™‚µ‚¢’·‚³‚É‚È‚é‚悤‚É‚·‚é - ‚±‚±‚Å“ñ‰ÓŠ‚Ɉó‚Ì•t‚¢‚Ä‚¢‚镨·‚µ‚ðŽg‚¤B ‚±‚Ì‚Æ‚« OA = AD = DC ‚Å‚ ‚é‚©‚ç, ÚACD = ÚCAD, ÚADO = ÚAOD. –¾‚ç‚©‚É ÚAOD = ÚADO = ÚACD + ÚCAD = 2ÚACD. ˆê•ûöŠp‚Å ÚBOC = ÚACO = ÚACD. ‚æ‚Á‚Ä ÚAOB = ÚBOC + ÚAOD = ÚACD + 2ÚACD = 3ÚACD = 3ÚBOC. ‘¦‚¿ŽO“™•ªo—ˆ‚½‚킯‚Å‚ ‚éB “ÁŽê‚È“¹‹ï‚ðŽg‚¤‚â‚è•û‚à’m‚ç‚ê‚Ä‚¢‚éB —Ⴆ‚Î ‚ðŽQÆ‚Ì‚±‚Æ (‚Ù‚Ú“¯‚¶“à—e‚Í, ‰p•¶‚Å‚ ‚邪 Origami Trisection of an angle ‚Å‚àŒ©‚ç‚ê‚é)B –” quadratrix of Hippias (ƒqƒbƒsƒAƒX‚̋Ȑü) ‚ð—p‚¢‚é‚Æ, Šp‚ð‰½“™•ª‚Å‚à‚Å‚«‚éB ‹t‚ÉŒ¾‚¤‚Æ ƒÆ = ƒÎy/2 ‚Å‚ ‚éB ]‚Á‚Ä y/x = tan ƒÆ = tan(ƒÎy/2). ‘¦‚¿ x = y/tan(ƒÎy/2) = y cot(ƒÎy/2). ‚±‚ꂪ quadratrix of Hippias ‚Å‚ ‚éB

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