04690nam 22006735 450 991068259960332120240313112255.03-031-24363-310.1007/978-3-031-24363-9(MiAaPQ)EBC7211154(Au-PeEL)EBL7211154(CKB)26240860400041(DE-He213)978-3-031-24363-9(PPN)26909301X(EXLCZ)992624086040004120230307d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIrrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert’s Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire /by Eduardo Dorrego López, Elías Fuentes Guillén1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2023.1 online resource (178 pages)Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science,2214-9783 ;58Print version: Dorrego López, Eduardo Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031243622 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: Antecedents -- Chapter 1. From Geometry to Analysis -- Chapter 2. The situation in the first half of the 18th century. Euler and continued fractions -- Part II: Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728—1777) -- Chapter 3. A biographical approach to Johann Heinrich Lambert -- Chapter 4. Outline of Lambert's Mémoire (1761/1768) -- Chapter 5. An annotated translation of Lambert's Mémoire (1761/1768) -- Chapter 6. Outine of Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse (1766/1770) -- Chapter 6. An annotated translation of Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse (1766/1770) -- Part III: The influence of Lambert's work and the development of irrational numbers -- Chapter 8. The state of irrationals until the turn of the century -- Chapter 9. Title to be set up.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. Lambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his Mémoire, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science,2214-9783 ;58MathematicsHistoryMathematicsPhilosophyHistory of Mathematical SciencesPhilosophy of MathematicsFilosofia de la matemàticathubIrracionalisme (Filosofia)thubTranscendència (Filosofia)thubLlibres electrònicsthubMathematics.History.MathematicsPhilosophy.History of Mathematical Sciences.Philosophy of Mathematics.Filosofia de la matemàticaIrracionalisme (Filosofia)Transcendència (Filosofia)128128Dorrego López Eduardo1346448Fuentes Guillén ElíasMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910682599603321Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem3074377UNINA