Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis by Douglas M. Jesseph

Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis

Science and Its Conceptual Foundations

Douglas M. Jesseph

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nonfiction history mathematics philosophy adventurous medium-paced
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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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