Lord Brouncker's forgotten sequence of continued fractions for pi

DOI10.1080/00207390903189195MaRDI QIDQ3552010zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas J. Osler

Publication date 19 April 2010

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00207390903189195

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractions\(\pi\)John WallisLord Brouncker

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Continued fractions (11A55) History in mathematics education (97A30) Number theory (educational aspects) (97F60) Sequences and series (educational aspects) (97I30)

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

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• Some connections between the formulas for \(\pi\) of Vieta, Wallis, and Brouncker
• A recovery of Brouncker's proof for the quadrature continued fraction
• Some continued fractions for \(\pi\) and \(G\)
• Wallis's product, Brouncker's continued fraction, and Leibniz's series

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