Squaring the Circle
Subtitle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780226398990
Subjects: History of science; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of science; Mathematicians And Their Works; Science; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Graphic Methods; Hobbes, Thomas; Mathematics / Graphic Methods; Wallis, John; History; History & Philosophy; 1588-1679; 1616-1703; 17th century; Contributions in mathematics; England; Hobbes, Thomas,; Philosophy; Wallis, John,
First sentence: In June of 1645 the English mathematician John Pell wrote to his friend Sir Charles Cavendish seeking assistance in an ongoing controversy with the Danish astronomer-mathematician Christian Severin Longborg, who is better known by his Latinized name Longomontanus.