References

 

 

http://www.cut-the-knot.com/impossible/sq_circle.html

http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/forum/square_circle/

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Squaring_the_circle.html

http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/maths/docs/pi.html

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Tim/SquaringCircle.html

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/SquareCirc.htm

 

Kline, Morris.  Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1972.

 

A proof that p is transcendental can be found here. 

 

Although I did not use the following web pages in the preceding report, they contain information about trisecting the angle:

 

http://hverrill.net/pages~helena/origami/trisect

http://nrich.maths.org/mathsf/journalf/sep00/stage3.html
http://www.cs.unb.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/node57.html

http://www.cut-the-knot.com/arithmetic/cubic.html

http://www.cut-the-knot.com/pythagoras/archi.html

http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/forum/angtri/

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Trisecting_an_angle.html

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/Trisect0.HTM

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/trisect.HTM

 

 

The following pages contain information about doubling the cube:

 

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Doubling_the_cube.html
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/DuplCube.HTM