Geometry Can Make You Rich
 

Interesting bit of info: If you figure out how to trisect (divide into 3 equal parts) an angle using only a compass and a straight-edge, then you can win a helluva lot of money.

Interesting...where did you come across this?

People have been looking for a way to do that for centuries. I'm pretty sure it's impossible.

Yeah, I just read about this guy who disproved it, but then again, quoting Einstein, "nothing is impossible, only improbable."

Where did you read about this? Is it in a book or something? I'm very interested in reading this myself.

MAN! I should have filmed myself doing it! and now I lost the notes, can't do it more than once, nope...

no really that's actually interesting who disproved it?

Pierre Wantzel disproved it in 1837. Google "trisecting an angle" and click on the first result to learn more.

interesting, I likes

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~his...risecting1.gif

Einstein was a physicist, not a mathematician. In mathematics, things can be absolutely proven to be impossible.

That sounds challenging. I'm trying it right now. Oh boy this is hard.
Icythaco, could you tell us where did you read that someone can win a lot of money by doing that?