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Hilbert's Error?

Alexander Shen

Abstract

It is well known that a center of a given circle cannot be constructed using only a straightedge and that this was proven by David Hilbert. Still it is not so clear what kind of object is proven to be non-existing. We analyze different attempts to define a geometric construction appearing in the literature and observe that none of them is really satisfactory and that Hilbert's proof needs to be corrected (as noted by Akopyan and Fedorov).

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lirmm-01803582 , version 1 (30-05-2018)

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Alexander Shen. Hilbert's Error?. 2018. ⟨lirmm-01803582⟩
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