 | David Bennett - 1997 - 212 páginas
...beauty. It was neatly summarised by Euclid in two of his propositions: "to cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the segments is equal to the square m the remaining segment" and "to cut a given finite line in extreme... | |
 | John J. Roche - 1998 - 364 páginas
...Euclid book II, proposition 1 1 is an example of a construction problem: To cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the segments is equal to the square on the remaining segment'. Heath points out24 that this is equivalent,... | |
 | Johannes de Muris, Hubertus Lambertus Ludovicus Busard - 1998 - 398 páginas
...radius of the circle (Campanus IV. 15 Porism). Prop. 3 reads as follows: To cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the segments is equal to the square on the remaining segment (Campanus 11.11). From Prop. 4: If the radius... | |
 | Reinhard Laubenbacher, David Pengelley - 2000 - 292 páginas
...Hint: See Figure 5.6. Exercise 5.9: Proposition 1 1 in Book II states: To cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the segments is equal to the square on the remaining segment. Which type of quadratic equation can be solved... | |
 | Georgia Lynette Irby-Massie, Paul Turquand Keyser - 2002 - 440 páginas
...proportion used in the Parthenon, which we call (sqrt(5)+1)/2 = 1.618...] To cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the segments is equal to die square on the remaining segment. Let AB be die given straight line (Figure... | |
 | Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans - 2004 - 716 páginas
...that this proportion occurs: in Book II, prop. 11, Euclid instructs us to "cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the segments is equal to the square on the remaining segment". 10 This implies that the division of AB... | |
 | Israel Kleiner - 2007 - 168 páginas
...algebraically as (a + b)2 — a2 + 2ab + b2. Proposition II. 1 1 states: "To cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the segments is equal to the square on the remaining segment." It asks, in algebraic language, to solve... | |
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To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. 
