The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century: A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz by Davide CrippaEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 189 Pages | ISBN : 3030016374 | 10.14 MB
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 These debates eventually culminated with the impossibility result that Leibniz appended to his unpublished treatise on the arithmetical quadrature of the circle.