Unpublished paper, 'On the extension of the value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to 440 places at decimals' by William Rutherford
Reference number: AP/34/21
Date: 04 October 1852
Description
Rutherford shares mathematical formulae for calculating pi to 440 decimal places.
Annotations in pencil throughout.
Subject: Mathematics
Received 17 November 1852. Communicated by Samuel Hunter Christie.
Written by Rutherford at the Royal Military Academy [Woolwich, London].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the extension of the value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter'.
- Reference number
- AP/34/21
- Earliest possible date
- 04 October 1852
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Rutherford, Unpublished paper, 'On the extension of the value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to 440 places at decimals' by William Rutherford, 04 October 1852, AP/34/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_21/unpublished-paper-on-the-extension-of-the-value-of-the-ratio-of-the-circumference-of-a-circle-to-its-diameter-to-440-places-at-decimals-by-william-rutherford, accessed on 21 March 2025
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Date: 31st December 1854
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0093
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Archived papers: volume 34, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1852-1854
1852-1854 Reference number: AP/34
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