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...
| Main Author: | Crippa, Davide, 1976- |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online Service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Birkhäuser,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) |
| Series: |
Frontiers in the history of science.
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| Subjects: |
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| CMU Electronic Access | Available |