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This book is about James Gregory’s attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically. Additonally, the subsequent debates that ensued between Gregory, Christiaan Huygens and G.W. Leibniz are presented and analyzed. These debates eventually culminated with the impossibility result that Leibniz appended to his unpublished treatise on the arithmetical quadrature of the circle. The author shows how the controversy around the possibility o

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Author

Davide Crippa

Publisher

Birkhäuser

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030016371

Category

mathematics

Subjects

Philosophy, Mathematics, Stem

Updated

2026-03-25