The discovery of wonders: reading between the lines of John Wallis's \textit{Arithmetica infinitorum}

DOI10.1007/s004070100040zbMath1026.01006OpenAlexW1981161129MaRDI QIDQ5952716

Jacqueline A. Stedall

Publication date: 25 April 2002

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070100040

zbMATH Keywords

heuristicsJohn Pellmathematical inductionPierre Fermatquadrature of the circleThomas HobbesWilliam Brouncker

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of real functions (26-03) History of approximations and expansions (41-03)

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