The impossibility of squaring the circle in the 17th century. A debate among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-01638-8zbMath1411.01003OpenAlexW4256079870MaRDI QIDQ1626805

Davide Crippa

Publication date: 21 November 2018

Published in: Frontiers in the History of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01638-8

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetical quadrature of the central conic sectionsimpossibility results in geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of geometry (51-03) History of field theory (12-03)

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