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LORENZO See also:MASCHERONI (1750-1800) , See also:Italian geometer, was See also:professor of See also:mathematics at the university of See also:Pavia, and published a variety of mathematical See also:works, the best known of which is his Geometria del compasso (Pavia, 1797), a collection of geometrical constructions in which the use of the circle alone is postulated . Many of the solutions are most ingenious, and some of the constructions of considerable See also:practical importance . There is a See also:French See also:translation by A . M . Carette (See also:Paris, 1798), who also wrote a See also:biography of See also:Mascheroni . See See also:Poggendorff, Biog . Lit . Handworterbuch . |
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