Towards Legitimation

Eli Maor
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Eli Maor: Oakland University, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Chapter 2 in To Infinity and Beyond, 1987, pp 10-16 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Like most other sciences, European mathematics came to a virtual standstill during the long, dark Middle Ages. It was not until the sixteenth century that the notion of infinity—long since forgotten as a scientific issue and having become instead the subject of theological speculations—underwent its revival. And one of the first questions to be tackled was once again that of finding an approximation to the value of π.

Keywords: Sixteenth Century; Fundamental Constant; Finite Quantity; Integral Calculus; Parabolic Orbit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5394-5_2

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