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Gregory of Saint Vincent: a pioneer of the calculus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Ad Meskens
Ad Meskens*
Affiliation:
Stedelijke Industriële Hogeschool, Hanswijckvaart 10, B2800 Mechelen, Belgium
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Extract

In MacKinnon‘s article he makes mention of Gregory of St Vincent‘s method of squaring the circle, giving the impression that this method involved ruler and compass, an impression that is reinforced by the title and extravagant frontispiece of the book. In this article I intend to correct this impression by describing St Vincent‘s method, which used a kind of integration method, to calculate, among other things, the area of the circle.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 78 , Issue 483 , November 1994 , pp. 315 - 319
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1994

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