Disputed Glory. John Wallis and some questions of precedence in seventeenth-century mathematics

zbMATH Open1184.01013MaRDI QIDQ3645574FDOQ3645574

Authors: Philip Beeley, Christoph J. Scriba 

Publication date: 18 November 2009

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zbMATH Keywords

rectificationJohn Wallispriority disputesArchimedian spiralsemicubical parabola

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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