The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Crippa, Davide (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Frontiers in the History of Science,
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

This book is about James Gregory's attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically. Additonally, the subsequent debates that ensued between Gregory, Christiaan Huygens and G.W. Leibniz are presented and analyzed. These debates even...