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Approximate Construction of Regular Polygons: Two Renaissance Artists - References

Author(s): 
Raul A. Simon

[1] Coolidge, J.L., The mathematics of great amateurs, Oxford, University Press, 1950.

[2] Pedoe, Dan, Geometry and the liberal arts, London, Penguin, 1976. 

 

Acknowledgement: The author is thankful to an anonymous referee for comments leading to a simplification in the study of Dürer’s construction.

 

Raul A. Simon, "Approximate Construction of Regular Polygons: Two Renaissance Artists - References," Convergence (August 2010)