This action's impossibility was a corollary of the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem.
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  ]