The most difficult part of Dr. Richeson's talk to understand was some of the explanations of how certain constructions were done. A few of them were just a little hard to follow.
I enjoyed Dr. Richeson's talk. I'm taking a class on the history of math this semester, so a lot of his talk dovetailed nicely with what I've learned about geometry and geometric constructions. They do seem like very elementary problems (even though they're impossible), and they might not have important applications to the real world, but it is still very interesting to see what mathematics is (and is not) capable of.
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