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The Arithmatic of Infinites: A School Introduction to the Integral Calculus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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The last section of Arithmetica Infinitorum is devoted to the ingenious argument by which Wallis suceeded in reaching the first modern expression of π as an infinite series.
We begin with an argument which, although in Wallis’s hands it proved abortive as an attempt to determine π, is yet useful for the comprehension of his more successful procedure, and has (as we shall see) great historical importance.
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