Browsing Graduate Theses by Author "Abbott, Timothy Good"
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Generalizations of Kempe's universality theorem
Abbott, Timothy Good (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In 1876, A. B. Kempe presented a flawed proof of what is now called Kempe's Universality Theorem: that the intersection of a closed disk with any curve in R2 defined by a polynomial equation can be drawn by a linkage. ...