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The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century: A Debate among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz
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SYSNO ASEP 0507016 Druh ASEP B - Monografie Zařazení RIV B - Odborná monografie, kniha Název The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century: A Debate among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz Tvůrce(i) Crippa, Davide (FLU-F) ORCID, RID, SAI Vyd. údaje Cham: Birkhäuser, 2019 ISBN 978-3-030-01637-1 Edice Frontiers in the history of science Poč.str. 184 s. Forma vydání Tištěná - P Jazyk dok. eng - angličtina Země vyd. CH - Švýcarsko Klíč. slova quadrature of the circle ; infinitesimal analysis ; Leibniz ; impossibility ; geometry Vědní obor RIV AA - Filosofie a náboženství Obor OECD Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology Institucionální podpora FLU-F - RVO:67985955 Anotace This book is about James Gregory’s attempt to prove that the quadrature of the circle, the ellipse and the hyperbola cannot be found algebraically. Additonally, the subsequent debates that ensued between Gregory, Christiaan Huygens and G.W. Leibniz are presented and analyzed. These debates eventually culminated with the impossibility result that Leibniz appended to his unpublished treatise on the arithmetical quadrature of the circle. The author shows how the controversy around the possibility of solving the quadrature of the circle by certain means (algebraic curves) pointed to metamathematical issues, particularly to the completeness of algebra with respect to geometry. In other words, the question underlying the debate on the solvability of the circle-squaring problem may be thus phrased: can finite polynomial equations describe any geometrical quantity? As the study reveals, this question was central in the early days of calculus, when transcendental quantities and operations entered the stage. Undergraduate and graduate students in the history of science, in philosophy and in mathematics will find this book appealing as well as mathematicians and historians with broad interests in the history of mathematics. Pracoviště Filosofický ústav Kontakt Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Rok sběru 2020
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