Irrationality, transcendence and the circle-squaring problem. An annotated translation of J. H. Lambert’s Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire

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Dorrego López, E. - Fuentes Guillén, Elías
Irrationality, transcendence and the circle-squaring problem. An annotated translation of J. H. Lambert’s Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire.
Cham: Springer, 2023. 171 s. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 58. ISBN 978-3-031-24362-2
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Johann Heinrich Lambert * history of mathematics in the 18th century * irrationality of Pi * trascendental numbers * the circle-squaring problem
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24363-9

This publication includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) written in the 1760s: Vorläufige Kenntnisse für die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités 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.
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