Author: James Smith (Member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 464
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The Geometry of the Circle and Mathematics ... Letter ...
Author: James Smith (Member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Pages : 464
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Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem
Author: Eduardo Dorrego López
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031243633
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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This publication includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) written in the 1760s: Vorläufige Kenntnisse für die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques. The translations are accompanied by a contextualised study of each of these works and provide an overview of Lambert’s contributions, showing both the background and the influence of his work. In addition, by adopting a biographical approach, it allows readers to better get to know the scientist himself. Lambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his Mémoire, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031243633
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This publication includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) written in the 1760s: Vorläufige Kenntnisse für die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques. The translations are accompanied by a contextualised study of each of these works and provide an overview of Lambert’s contributions, showing both the background and the influence of his work. In addition, by adopting a biographical approach, it allows readers to better get to know the scientist himself. Lambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his Mémoire, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.
Catalogue of the Library of the University of London, Including the Libraries of G. Grote and A. De Morgan (mainly Compiled by T. Nichols).
Author: University of London
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Pages : 812
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Catalogue of the Library of the University of London; Incl. the Libraries of George Grote and Augustus de Morgan
Author: Thomas II Nichols
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Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Pages : 806
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Catalogue of the Library of the University of London. Including the Libraries of George Grote and Augustus de Morgan
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385498732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385498732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Works Relating to Mathematics
Author: Cornell University. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Pages : 106
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The ratio between diameter and circumference in a circle demonstrated by angles, and Euclid's theorem, proposition 32, book 1, proved to be fallacious
Author: James Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Library Bulletin of Cornell University
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Catalogue of Science and Technology, No
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Library Bulletin
Author: Cornell University. Libraries
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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