Cavalieri's method of indivisibles

zbMath0563.01005MaRDI QIDQ1057250

Kirsti Andersen

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

cubature problemquadrature problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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