Definition:Method of Indivisibles/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Method of Indivisibles
The method of indivisibles was presented by Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri in his $1635$ work Geometria Indivisibilibus Continuorum Nova Quadam Ratione Promota, as an extension of Johannes Kepler's technique for finding volumes of revolution.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): calculus
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): calculus