Geometry, religion and politics: context and consequences of the Hobbes-Wallis dispute

DOI10.1098/RSNR.2018.0026MaRDI QIDQ5378986zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Douglas Jesseph

Publication date 27 May 2019

Published in Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2018.0026

zbMATH Keywords

geometrymethod of indivisiblesmathematical proofsquadrature of the circlemathematical dispute

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03)

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