English Title

Consideration of a progression suitable for finding the quadrature of a circle

Authors

Leonhard Euler

Enestrom Number

125

Fuss Index

159

Original Language

Latin

Content Summary

Euler presents an elementary derivation of a semi-convergent series for the arctangent function, which is a special case of the Euler summation formula.

Published as

Journal article

Published Date

1750

Written Date

1739

Original Source Citation

Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae, Volume 11, pp. 116-127.

Opera Omnia Citation

Series 1, Volume 14, pp.350-363.

Record Created

2018-09-25

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