Lord Brouncker's forgotten sequence of continued fractions for pi

DOI10.1080/00207390903189195zbMath1292.97023OpenAlexW2008391384WikidataQ99705170 ScholiaQ99705170MaRDI QIDQ3552010

Thomas J. Osler

Publication date: 19 April 2010

Published in: International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207390903189195

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractions\(\pi\)John WallisLord Brouncker

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History in mathematics education (97A30) Sequences and series (educational aspects) (97I30) Number theory (educational aspects) (97F60)

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• Wallis's product, Brouncker's continued fraction, and Leibniz's series
• The arithmetic of infinitesimals. Translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Jaqueline A. Stedall
• A recovery of Brouncker's proof for the quadrature continued fraction
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