Charles L. Dodgson's geometric approach to arctangent relations for pi
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Charles L. Dodgson's geometric approach to arctangent relations for pi
zbMATH Open document ID: 0777.01001
author: Francine F. Abeles
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 1993-12-15T00:00:00Z
review text: This is a historic analysis of the work of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) aimed at the would-be circle squarers at the end of the 19th century. Dodgson didn't want to involve himself in the details of each argument. Instead, he devised a method whereby each novice circle-squarer could convince himself of the futility of his ``original'' method. Dodgson introduced a method to compute approximations for \(\pi\) that was both efficient and simpler than the prevailing methods using Machin's and Gregory's series.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51M05
zbMATH DE Number: 232873
zbMATH Keywords: circle squaring
zbMATH Keywords: arctangent relations
zbMATH Keywords: Euclidean constructions
reviewed by: Dušan Repovš
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: hmat.1993.1013
OpenAlex ID: W2058080043
cites work: Q5625099
cites work: The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean and Fast Computation of Elementary Functions
cites work: On Arccotangent Relations for &#960
cites work: The Chronology of PI
DOI: 10.1006/HMAT.1993.1013
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 232873