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Re:What Is Mathematics and What Should It Be? [pdf] by tzs on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:35AM (#14612508)
There's an interesting proof of the impossibility of trisecting an arbitrary angle with only straight-edge and compass on Terry Tao's blog [1]. It's interesting because it is mostly a geometric proof rather than the usual Galois theory approach. The only major non-geometric part is that it depends on the fact that 3 does not divide any integral power of 2.

Here are formal proofs of the impossibility of trisection and of doubling the cube, using the Isabelle proof assistant [2].

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/a-geometric-proof-...

[2] https://www.isa-afp.org/entries/Impossible_Geometry.shtml

Re:What Is Mathematics and What Should It Be? [pdf] by GregBuchholz on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:22AM (#14612846)
Robert Yates wrote an interesting book that I liked about a plethora of non-compass-and-straight-edge trisection methods: The Trisection Problem.

https://www.google.com/#q=the+trisection+problem+yates