Author: James Smith (Member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.)
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Category : Circle-squaring
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Ratio Between Diameter and Circumference in a Circle Demonstrated ...
Author: James Smith (Member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.)
Publisher:
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Category : Circle-squaring
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circle-squaring
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Book of Common Fallacies
Author: Philip Ward
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1620873362
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Long before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1620873362
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Long before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.
Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem
Author: Eduardo Dorrego López
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.
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.
A Budget of Paradoxes
Author: Augustus De Morgan
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602063206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
A Budget of Paradoxes, originally published in 1915, is mathematician Augustus De Morgan's most accessible and entertaining work. Well-known for his wit, De Morgan takes aim at those people he calls "paradoxers," which in modern terms would most closely resemble crackpots. Paradoxers, however, are not crazy, necessarily-rather, they hold views wildly outside the accepted sphere. If you believed the world was round when everyone else knew that it was flat, you would be a paradoxer. In this book, De Morgan reviews a number of books from his own library written by such "crackpots" who claim to have solved a great many of the puzzles of mathematics and science, including squaring a circle, creating perpetual motion, and overcoming gravity. Each is thoroughly put in his place in ways both entertaining and informative to readers. Skeptics, students of science, and anyone who likes pondering a puzzle will find this book a delightful read. British mathematician AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN (1806-1871) invented the term mathematical induction. Among his many published works is Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849).
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602063206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
A Budget of Paradoxes, originally published in 1915, is mathematician Augustus De Morgan's most accessible and entertaining work. Well-known for his wit, De Morgan takes aim at those people he calls "paradoxers," which in modern terms would most closely resemble crackpots. Paradoxers, however, are not crazy, necessarily-rather, they hold views wildly outside the accepted sphere. If you believed the world was round when everyone else knew that it was flat, you would be a paradoxer. In this book, De Morgan reviews a number of books from his own library written by such "crackpots" who claim to have solved a great many of the puzzles of mathematics and science, including squaring a circle, creating perpetual motion, and overcoming gravity. Each is thoroughly put in his place in ways both entertaining and informative to readers. Skeptics, students of science, and anyone who likes pondering a puzzle will find this book a delightful read. British mathematician AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN (1806-1871) invented the term mathematical induction. Among his many published works is Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849).
A Budget of Paradoxes
Author: Augustus De Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circle-squaring
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circle-squaring
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Languages : en
Pages : 930
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A Dictionary of Common Fallacies
Author: Philip Ward
Publisher: Cambridge : Oleander Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge : Oleander Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description