The scholar and the fencing master: the exchanges between Joseph Justus Scaliger and Ludolph van Ceulen on the circle quadrature (1594--1596)

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2010.03.004MaRDI QIDQ990260zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan P. Hogendijk

Publication date 6 September 2010

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/194852

zbMATH Keywords

circle quadratureAdriaan van RoomenAndreas HelmreichCyclometrica

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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