The philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed himself to be capable of doing this, leading to a lengthy debate with John Wallis.
One approximate method for doing this is found in the Sulba Sutras. This action was mentioned in The Birds by Aristophanes, and Hippocrates attempted to  nd a way to do this by using lunes. The philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed himself to be capable of doing this, leading to a lengthy debate with John Wallis. The Indiana   Pi Bill notably contained a proposed method of doing this. This action's impossibility was a corollary of the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem. For ten points, identify this ancient problem involving the construction of a certain shape with area pi.
One approximate method for doing this is found in the Sulba Sutras.
squaring the circle [accept descriptive answers like  constructing a square with area pi  or  constructing a square with area the same as a given circle  ]