Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Contents
- Ancient Mathematics
- Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics
- Foreword
- The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha
- Ideas of Calculus in Islam and India
- Was Calculus Invented in India?
- An Early Iterative Method for the Determination of sin 1°
- Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum
- The Algorists vs. the Abacists: An Ancient Controversy on the Use of Calculators
- Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia Controversy
- Reading Bombelli's χ-purgated Algebra
- The First Work on Mathematics Printed in the New World
- Afterword
- The Seventeenth Century
- The Eighteenth Century
- Index
- About the Editors
The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha
from Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Contents
- Ancient Mathematics
- Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics
- Foreword
- The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha
- Ideas of Calculus in Islam and India
- Was Calculus Invented in India?
- An Early Iterative Method for the Determination of sin 1°
- Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum
- The Algorists vs. the Abacists: An Ancient Controversy on the Use of Calculators
- Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia Controversy
- Reading Bombelli's χ-purgated Algebra
- The First Work on Mathematics Printed in the New World
- Afterword
- The Seventeenth Century
- The Eighteenth Century
- Index
- About the Editors
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- Sherlock Holmes in BabylonAnd Other Tales of Mathematical History, pp. 111 - 121Publisher: Mathematical Association of AmericaPrint publication year: 2003
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