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Re: Trisection (was Re: When to call a crank a crank?)

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From: Michael Hand
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:32
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Russell Turpin writes:

> > Many math departments are visited frequently by fellows...who will 
> > share with any willing -- or even unwilling -- graduate student or 
> > faculty member their method for trisecting the angle,...

Check Underwood Dudley, *A Budget of Trisections* (New York: Springer-Verlag, 
1987).  Fascinating and hilarious.
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Subject: Re: Trisection (was Re: When to call a crank a crank?)
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