{"id":20434,"date":"2020-02-19T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=20434"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:25:44","slug":"at-the-age-of-19-gauss-was-the-first-person-to-accomplish-the-ruler-and-compass-construction-of-a-17-gon-polygon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=20434","title":{"rendered":"At the age of 19, Gauss was the first person to accomplish the ruler and compass construction of a 17-gon polygon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At the age of 19, Gauss was the first person to accomplish the ruler and compass construction of a 17-gon polygon. This proof represented the first progress in regular polygon construction in over 2000 years. While doing it, he also discovered this expression for cos(2\u03c0\/17) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AByfnuMDcr\">pic.twitter.com\/AByfnuMDcr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fermat&#39;s Library (@fermatslibrary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fermatslibrary\/status\/1230132185694375936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histoire","category-mathematiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20435,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20434\/revisions\/20435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}