Lunes - Numberphile
Spearheading a Lune. Featuring Barry Mazur. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Reddit discussion: http://redd.it/2hze46 Read more at ...
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Lune as in lunar and a lune in mathematics looks something like this. Brady: "And is that like the modern word for that? That's what you would call it?" Oh that's what we'd call it I suppose, yeah. "It looks like a crescent to me." Crescent? You could call it that. This is a mathematical object that was of interest a number of millennia ago, and it's still of interest. We have a real sense of what Hippocrates of Chios, 5th century BC mathematician he was interested in, can I say, even though this doesn't occur in his text at all, squaring the circle. So what does it mean to square the circle? What it means really is to find, at least the way I'm going to interpret it, is to find a polygon of the same area as the circle and to find it in some constru...
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Lune as in lunar and a lune in mathematics looks something like this. Brady: "And is that like the modern word for that? That's what you would call it?" Oh that's what we'd call it I suppose, yeah. "It looks like a crescent to me." Crescent? You could call it that. This is a mathematical object that was of interest a number of millennia ago, and it's still of interest. We have a real sense of what Hippocrates of Chios, 5th century BC mathematician he was interested in, can I say, even though this doesn't occur in his text at all, squaring the circle. So what does it mean to square the circle? What it means really is to find, at least the way I'm going to interpret it, is to find a polygon of the same area as the circle and to find it in some constru...
