The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha

DOI10.2307/2690896MaRDI QIDQ3348869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ranjan Roy

Publication date 1990

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2690896

zbMATH Keywords

arctan series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of Indian mathematics (01A32) History of sequences, series, summability (40-03)

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