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ISBN/UID: 9780226398990
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 January 2000
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In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of squaring of the circle (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis be...
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433 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226398990
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 January 2000
Description
In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of squaring of the circle (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis be...
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Content Warnings