Exhausting the circle -- on mathematics and history of rectification

zbMATH Open1231.00031MaRDI QIDQ3018857FDOQ3018857

Authors: Y. S. Kupitz, Horst Martini 

Publication date: 27 July 2011

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zbMATH Keywords

bounded variationsquaring the circleordered fieldarc-rectificationArchimedes' circle-area theoremAxiom of Archimedesconvexity axiom

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methodology of mathematics (00A35) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Euclidean analytic geometry (51N20) History of geometry (51-03) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) History of convex and discrete geometry (52-03)

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