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
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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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.