How Long to Read Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem

How Long Does it Take to Read Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 3 minutes to read Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem by Eduardo Dorrego López

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Description

This publication 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 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, by adopting a biographical approach, it allows readers to better get to know the scientist himself. Lambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his Mémoire, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.

How long is Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem?

Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem by Eduardo Dorrego López is 178 pages long, and a total of 45,924 words.

This makes it 60% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 10 minutes to read Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem aloud.

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Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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