Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem - An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert's Vorlaufige Kenntnisse and Memoire (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

This publication includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) written in the 1760s: Vorlaufige Kenntnisse fur die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Memoire sur quelques proprietes remarquables des quantites transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques. The translations are accompanied by a contextualised study of each of these works and provide an overview of Lambert's contributions, showing both the background and the influence of his work. In addition, by adopting a biographical approach, it allows readers to better get to know the scientist himself. Lambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his Memoire, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 58
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Eduardo Dorrego Lopez • Elias Fuentes Guillen
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-124362-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Philosophy of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
LSN:	3-03-124362-5
Barcode:	9783031243622

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