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2004 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals or a New Method of Inquiring into the Quadrature of Curves, and other more difficult mathematical problems

verfasst von : John Wallis

Erschienen in: The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals

Verlag: Springer New York

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If there is proposed a series,1 of quantities in arithmetic proportion (or as the natural sequence of numbers)2 continually increasing, beginning from a point or 0 (that is, nought, or nothing),3 thus as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., let it be proposed to inquire what is the ratio of the sum of all of them, to the sum of the same number of terms equal to the greatest.

Metadaten
Titel
The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals or a New Method of Inquiring into the Quadrature of Curves, and other more difficult mathematical problems
verfasst von
John Wallis
Copyright-Jahr
2004
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4312-8_4

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