Mathologer

2000 years unsolved: Why is doubling cubes and squaring circles impossible? (2019x5)

Air date: Jun 29, 2019

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?