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1 Chapter 1 Constructions with ruler and compass 1.1 Constructibility An important part in ancient Greek mathematics was played by the constructions with ruler and compass. That is the art to construct certain figures in plane geometry using only ruler and compass starting from a given geometric configuration. For example, given a line l and a point P not on l, construct the line through P perpendicular to l. Or, given two lines l, m, intersecting in a point, construct an angle bisector. There are a number of construction problems that could not be solved in Greek times. The most notorious ones are: 1. (squaring the circle) Given a circle, construct a square having the same surface area. 2. (doubling the cube) Given the edge of a cube, construct an new edge such that the volume of the corresponding cube is twice the original one. Also known as the Delian problem. 3. (trisection of an angle) Given two lines intersecting through P, construct a line through P which trisects the angle. Nowadays we know that such constructions are impossible. This follows from developments in algebra from the 19-th century. For example, the impossibility of the Delian problem and the trisection of an (arbitrary) angle was proven by Wantzel in In this chapter we show how that can be done. In 1881 Lindemann showed that the quadrature of the circle is impossible, and this was done by showing that π is transcendental over Q. This requires non-algebraic techniques which we will not go into. To understand Wantzel s results we must formalize the concept of construction first. The general idea is that a construction starts with a finite set of points in the plane, which we consider constructed. The basic construction steps are the following, 1
2 2 CHAPTER 1. CONSTRUCTIONS WITH RULER AND COMPASS 1. Given any two constructed points A, B we can draw a straight line through A and B, or a circle with center in A and passing through B. We call such circles and lines constructible. 2. Given any pair C 1, C 2 where C i can either be a constructed line or circle, we can determine their points of intersection. We add these new points to our constructed set of points. A few warnings: 1. Not all points on a constructible line or circle are constructible. 2. The ruler is unmarked, so you cannot measure distances with it. Here are a few basic constructions. The numbering in the figures depicts the order of the operations. Construction Given a line l and a point p, one can construct a line through p perpendicular to l, cf. figuur 1. Figure 1.1: Construction: line through p, perpendicular to l, left p l and right p l. Construction Given a line l and a point p not on l, one can construct a line through p, parallel to l. cf. figure 2 (we use construction 0.1.1). Construction Given a line l, a point p l and two other (constructible) points q, r. One can construct a point s l such that the distance between p and s equals the distance between q, r, cf. figure 2 (we use construction 0.1.2). We now come to the classical construction problems mentioned above. In all three we can start with the simplest basis configuration, namely two points. This is obvious for the quadrature of the circle, we only need to give the center
3 1.1. CONSTRUCTIBILITY 3 Figure 1.2: Construction of parallel of the circle and a point through which the circle passes. For the Delian problem we can take two points and the distance between them will be the side of the initial cube. For the trisection of an angle it suffices to take the angle of In that case one can start with two points and form an equilateral triangle having the distance between them as sides. We may as well assume that in a basis configuration the distance between the points is 1. Definition A real number a is said to be constructible if a occurs as the distance between two points of a construction whose base configuration consists of two points with distance 1. Using the constructions 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, we can introduce a system of coordinate axes in which the two basic starting points read (0, 0) and (1, 0). The following theorem is then more or less obvious. Theorem Consider constructions with a basis configuration of two points (0, 0) and (1, 0) (so we assume we also have a coordinate system). Then a point punt p = (a, b) can be constructed if and only if a, b are constructible numbers. Proof: Given a constructed point (a, b) we can project it on the x- and y-axes using construction to get (a, 0) and (0, b). Then a is the distance between the constructed points (a, 0) and (0, 0). Similarly for b. Conversely, given any constructible number a, we can use it to construct the point (a, 0) via construction Similarly we can construct (0, b). One then finds (a, b) by intersection of parallels via construction Theorem The constructible numbers form a subfield of R containing Q. We shall denote the field of constructible numbers by Q constr. Proof: We show that for every two constructible a, b R with a, b 0 the sum a + b, the difference a b, the product ab and, if a 0, the inverse a 1 are constructible. Our assertion then follows by definition of a subfield of R. The sum and difference can be constructed via construction
4 4 CHAPTER 1. CONSTRUCTIONS WITH RULER AND COMPASS Figure 1.3: Construction of the product For the product we use the following geometric picture of proportional triangles which can easily be constructed, see 3. Suppose the left hand triangle is given and one side of the right hand triangle. Then the second triangle cvan be completed by drawing parallel lines via construction To construct ab te construeren, we take r = 1, s = a and r = b. From r/s = r /s it follows that s = ab. To construct a 1 we choose r = a, s = 1 en r = 1. Then s = a 1. Theorem If a R, a > 0 is constructible, then so is a. Proof: We use the construction in figure 4. The left hand triangle has side r = a and the right hand (gelijkvormige) driehoek heeft zijden r = s en s = 1. Dus geldt a = rs = r s = s 2, dus s = a. Figure 1.4: Constructie van de vierkantswortel Theorem Given four points p i = (a i, b i ), i = 1, 2, 3, 4 having coordinates in a subfield K of R. Let A, B be straight lines or circles that can be constructed from p 1, p 2 and p 3, p 4 respectively. Then the coordinates of the points of intersection between A en B are contained in K or in a quadratic extension K( r) of K, where r K, r > 0. Proof: A straight line through the points p = (a, b) en q = (c, d) is determined by the linear equation (c a)(y b) = (d b)(x a).
5 1.1. CONSTRUCTIBILITY 5 The circle with center p and passing through q is determined by the quadratic equation (x a) 2 + (y b) 2 = (c a) 2 + (d b) 2. The point of intersection between two lines through the given points is determined by a system of 2 equations with coefficients in K. Hence the coordinates of this point of intersection lie in K. The coordinates of the points of intersection between a circle and a line can be found by elimination of y (or x) from the equations of the line and the circle. We obtain a quadratic equation with coefficients in K for x (or y). The solutions lie in K( D) where D is the discriminant of the quadratic equation. When D = 0, there is only solution, corresponding to one point of intersection, and its coordinates lie in K. When D > 0 then we have two real solutions, corresponding to two points of intersection, and their coordinates lie in K( D). The case D < 0 corresponds to the case when the line and circle do not intersect. Finally, to obtain the intersection points between two circles we need to solve a system of two quadratic equations. However, both equations have the quadratic term x 2 +y 2. After substraction of these two equations we are left with a linear and a quadratic equation. We now proceed as in the previous case. Theorem Let a be a constructible number. Then there exists a tower of extensions Q = K 0 K 1 K n = K such that: 1. K is a subfield of R, 2. a K, 3. for i = 0,..., n 1 there exists 0 < r i K i such that and r i K i. Conversely: Let K i+1 = K i ( r i ) Q = K 0 K 1 K n = K be a chain of extensions satisfying the above conditions, then every element of K is contructible. Proof: Choose the coordinate system as before such that the starting points are (0, 0) and (1, 0). The construction of a consists of several steps. In each step one determines the points of intersection of constructible lines and circles. By adjoining the coordinates of these points to Q we build a sequence of quadratic extension in virtue of Theorem Conversely, by Theorems and every element in K is constructible.
6 6 CHAPTER 1. CONSTRUCTIONS WITH RULER AND COMPASS Corollary Let a be a constructible number, then a is algebraic over Q of degree 2 n. Proof: Let K be the highest degree field in a tower given Theorem 0.1.9, and a K. Then [K : Q] = 2 m because of the tower formula. The tower formula also implies that [Q(a) : Q] 2 m, since Q(a) K. Corollary implies the impossibility of the classical contruction problems we mentioned in the beginning. Theorem Quadrature of the circle is impossible. 2. The cube cannot be doubled in volume. 3. The angle of 60 o cannot be trisected. Proof: 1) Take a circle with radius 1. A square with the same area would have side π. Since π is transcendental 1 it is not algebraic, hence not constructible. 2) Take a cube with side 1. The doubled cube has 3 2, but that number is not constructible, since 3 2 has minimal equation X 3 2 which has degree 3 and not a power of two. 3) Notice that trisection of 60 o would imply the contructibility of a = cos 20 o. Using the formula cos 3α = 4 cos 3 α 3 cos α with α = 20 o we get 8a 3 6a 1 = 0. So 2a satisfies X 3 3X 1 = 0. But this polynomial is irreducible in Q[X], since reducibility would imply that there is an integer zero which divides 1. This is clearly not the case, so a is a cubic number, and therefore not constructible. The converse of Corollary does not hold. For example, there are extensions Q(α) of degree of 4 with α R not constructible. In general it is harder to derive positive construction results using Theorem For this we require more information concerning the subfields of a field extension. The main theorem of Galois theory gives us precisely such information. One of the main applications will be the construction of the regular 17-gon as discovered by Gauss. 1.2 Exercises 1. Let ζ = e 2πi 5. Show that ζ has minimal polynomial X 4 + X 3 + X 2 + X + 1 over Q. Show that ξ := ζ + ζ 1 = cos 72 0 and ξ satisfies ξ 2 + ξ 1 = 0. Use this to contruct the regular 5-gon. 2. Can the angles 90 0 and be trisected with ruler and compass? Prove or disprove. 1 voor een bewijs, zie bv. L. Berggren; J. Borwein, P. Borwein, Pi: a source book. Springer- Verlag, New York, 2000.
7 1.2. EXERCISES 7 3. We are given two points P, Q with distance 1. Is it possible to construct with ruler and compass a point R on the line P Q such that P R QR 2 =1?
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