Encyclopedia > Heptadecagon

  Article Content

Heptadecagon

In geometry, a heptadecagon is a seventeen-sided polygon.

See also Carl Friedrich Gauss and Ruler and compass constructions.

You can see how to construct regular 17-gon geometrically at

http://www.showmath.co.kr/const/polygon/rpoly17

And you can see algebraic aspect (by Gauss) in this book :

'Famous Problems and Other Monographs' by F.Klein et al.

http://www.mathlove.org/bbs/data/mathfb/alg17gon.ppt



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Wheatley Heights, New York

... 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 95.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.3 males. Th ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 26.3 ms