The Leibniz catenary and approximation of e -- an analysis of his unpublished calculations

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2019.06.001MaRDI QIDQ2279707zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Raugh, Siegmund Probst

Publication date 13 December 2019

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2019.06.001

zbMATH Keywords

differential calculuscatenarylogarithmic curvenumber $e$

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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