- the
infinity symbol with its
mathematical meaning in 1655, in his De
sectionibus conicis.
Wallis did not
explain his
choice of this symbol. It has been...
-
first appeared in Gauss's 1809 work
Theoria motus corporum coelestium in
sectionibus conicis solem ambientum.
Given m {\displaystyle m}
functions r = ( r...
- Gauss, Carl
Friedrich (1809).
Theoria motus corporum coelestium in
sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. Hamburg, Germany:
Friedrich Perthes and I.H...
-
eventually published in 1809 as
Theoria motus corporum coelestium in
sectionibus conicis solem ambientum. It
introduced the
Gaussian gravitational constant...
- used the
notation ∞ {\displaystyle \infty } for such a
number in his De
sectionibus conicis, and
exploited it in area
calculations by
dividing the region...
-
appeared in the
works of
Gauss (1809) "Theoria
motus corporum coelestium in
sectionibus conicis solem ambientium" (page 212). Gauss's
definition differs from...
-
Friedrich Gauss in his 1809 work
Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in
Sectionibus Conicis Solem Ambientum ("Theory of the
Motion of the
Heavenly Bodies...
- algebra. However, it was John
Wallis in his 1655
treatise Tractatus de
sectionibus conicis who
first defined the
conic sections as
instances of equations...
-
Cambridge Philosophical Society. 3: 185–190. Hamilton, Hugh (1758). De
Sectionibus Conicis.
Tractatus Geometricus. In quo, ex
Natura ipsius Coni, Sectionum...
- ISBN 978-0-7195-0356-6. Gauss, C.F. (1809).
Theoria motus corporum coelestium in
sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. Hamburg, Germany:
Friedrich Perthes and I.H...
