Wallis's product, Brouncker's continued fraction, and Leibniz's series

DOI10.1007/BF00348349zbMath0487.01008OpenAlexW2045139588MaRDI QIDQ1165224

Jacques Dutka

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00348349

zbMATH Keywords

approximationcontinued fractionsacceleration of convergencenumerical analysisLeibniz seriestable-constructionW. Brouncker

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of numerical analysis (65-03) History of sequences, series, summability (40-03)

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