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portada Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem: An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Language
English
Pages
167
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm
Weight
0.45 kg.
ISBN13
9783031522222
Edition No.
0002
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Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem: An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire

Eduardo Dorrego López (Author) · Elías Fuentes Guillén (Author) · Springer · Hardcover

Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem: An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire - Dorrego López, Eduardo ; Fuentes Guillén, Elías

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Synopsis "Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem: An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire"

This publication, now in its second edition, includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) written in the 1760s: Vorläufige Kenntnisse für die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques. The translations, as in the first edition, are accompanied by a contextualised study of each of these works and provide an overview of Lambert's contributions, showing both the background and the influence of his work. In addition, by adopting a biographical approach, it allows readers to better get to know the scientist himself.Lambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his Mémoire, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.

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