Oresme's proof of the density of rotations of a circle through an irrational angle

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1993.1034zbMath0792.01005OpenAlexW2049635052MaRDI QIDQ1319120

Jan von Plato

Publication date: 21 July 1994

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1993.1034

zbMATH Keywords

incommensurable velocities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35)

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Cites Work

• On the development of the theory of uniform distribution during the years 1909 to 1916
• Nicole Oresme and the commensurability or incommensurability of the celestical motions
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