Mathematical Discoveries, 1600-1750

Front Cover
Stockwell, 1977 - Mathematics - 121 pages

Contents

How Napier discovered Logarithms
7
How Wallis solved the Quadrature of the Circle
13
How Nicholas Mercator by 1668 discovered
24
How James Gregory discovered his Arctan
32
How Edmund Halley discovered the Discounted
45
How John Machin and Abraham de Moivre
53

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