Catching Proteus: the collaborations of Wallis and Brounker. I. Squaring the circle

DOI10.1098/RSNR.2000.0114zbMath0983.01004OpenAlexW2166650984MaRDI QIDQ4525178

Jacqueline A. Stedall

Publication date: 2 September 2001

Published in: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2000.0115

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionsquadrature of the circleWilliam BrounckerJohn WallisPierre de Fermatproblems in number theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of number theory (11-03) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03) History of measure and integration (28-03)

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