 | David Bennett - Bridges - 1997 - 212 pages
...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... | |
 | Johannes de Muris, Hubertus Lambertus Ludovicus Busard - History - 1998 - 398 pages
...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... | |
 | John J. Roche - Mathematics - 1998 - 364 pages
...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,... | |
 | Reinhard Laubenbacher, David Pengelley - Mathematics - 2000 - 292 pages
...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 - History - 2002 - 440 pages
...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 - Mathematics - 2004 - 716 pages
...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 - Mathematics - 2007 - 168 pages
...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, may be equal to the square of the other part. 
