Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem
Fuentes Guillén, Elías / Dorrego López, Eduardo
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 Lamb...