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

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

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 eventuall...

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Main Author: Crippa, Davide (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Frontiers in the History of Science,
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Subjects:
Mathematics.
History.
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