The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Frontiers in the History of Science,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
