Definition:Newton-Mercator Series/Historical Note

Historical Note on Newton-Mercator Series

The Newton-Mercator series was discovered independently by both Isaac Newton and Nicholas Mercator, the latter of whom published it in $1668$.

However, it was also independently discovered by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Mercator's series
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Mercator's series