- In geometry, Cavalieri's principle, a
modern implementation of the
method of indivisibles,
named after Bonaventura Cavalieri, is as follows: 2-dimensional...
- work on the
problems of optics and motion, work on
indivisibles, the
precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the
introduction of logarithms to Italy...
-
librarian at the
Library of Alexandria, and
contains the
first attested explicit use
of indivisibles (
indivisibles are
geometric versions of infinitesimals)....
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Tacquet adhered to the
methods of the
geometry of Euclid and the
philosophy of Aristotle and
opposed the
method of indivisibles. André
Tacquet was born...
- came to be
known as the
method of indivisibles in his work The
Method of Mechanical Theorems to find
areas of regions and
volumes of solids. In his formal...
- Cavalieri's principle, also
termed the
method of indivisibles which eventually evolved into the
infinitesimal calculus of Roberval, Torricelli, Wallis, Leibniz...
- Look up
indivisible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Indivisible may
refer to:
Method of indivisibles, the
historical name
of what is now
known as Cavalieri's...
-
Memoirs of the
Royal Academy, 1693,
observes that the
method of transforming figures,
explained at the
latter end
of Roberval's
Treatise of Indivisibles, was...
-
General of the
Jesuits led by
Bidermann banned the
method of indivisibles of Galileo and
Cavalieri from
being taught in the vast
network of Jesuit schools...
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calculation of area by any
method. Most
often the
method of indivisibles was used; it was less
rigorous than the
geometric constructions of the Gr****s...
