Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert’s Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire /
This publication 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 transcendent...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science,
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24363-9 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part I: Antecedents
- Chapter 1. From Geometry to Analysis
- Chapter 2. The situation in the first half of the 18th century. Euler and continued fractions
- Part II: Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728—1777)
- Chapter 3. A biographical approach to Johann Heinrich Lambert
- Chapter 4. Outline of Lambert's Mémoire (1761/1768)
- Chapter 5. An anotated translation of Lambert's Mémoire (1761/1768)
- Chapter 6. Outine of Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse (1766/1770)
- Chapter 6. An anotated translation of Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse (1766/1770)
- Part III: The influence of Lambert's work and the development of irrational numbers
- Chapter 8. The state of irrationals until the turn of the century
- Chapter 9. Title to be set up.