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

• Main Author: Crippa, Davide (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Frontiers in the History of Science,
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• FM.-Introduction
• James Gregory and the Impossibility of Squaring the Central Conic Sections
• Leibniz's Arithmetical Quadrature of the Circle
• Conclusion.-BM.