{"product_id":"9783031522253","title":"Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science: An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert’s Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLogic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science: An Annotated Translation of J. H. Lambert’s Vorläufige Kenntnisse and Mémoire\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDorrego López, Eduardo; Fuentes Guillén, Elías\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis publication, now in its second edition, includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) written in the 1760s: \u003ci\u003eVorläufige Kenntnisse für die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques\u003c\/i\u003e. The translations, as in the first edition, are accompanied by a contextualised study of each of these works and provide an overview of Lambert’s contributions, showing both the background and the influence of his work. In addition, by adopting a biographical approach, it allows readers to better get to know the scientist himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLambert was a highly relevant scientist and polymath in his time, admired by the likes of Kant, who despite having made a wide variety of contributions to different branches of knowledge, later faded into an undeserved secondary place with respect to other scientists of the eighteenth century. In mathematics, in particular, he is famous for his research on non-Euclidean geometries, although he is likely best known for having been the first who proved the irrationality of pi. In his \u003ci\u003eMémoire\u003c\/i\u003e, he conducted one of the first studies on hyperbolic functions, offered a surprisingly rigorous proof of the irrationality of pi, established for the first time the modern distinction between algebraic and transcendental numbers, and based on such distinction, he conjectured the transcendence of pi and therefore the impossibility of squaring the circle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-05-20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031522253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-52223-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 167\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45378388754572,"sku":"9783031522253","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031522253.jpg?v=1775680274","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031522253","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}