Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem

Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem

An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert's Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire

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This publication, now in its second edition, 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, as in the first edition, 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, ...