Paper, 'Investigation of a new and simple series by which the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference may easily by computed to any required degree of accuracy' by William Rutherford
Reference number: PT/25/13
Date: 16 April 1841
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This is an earlier version of the paper found at PT/25/14.
Subject: Mathematics
Communicated by S [Samuel] Hunter Christie. Written by Rutherford at the Royal Military Academy. Received by the Royal Society on 16 April 1841. Read 6 May 1841.
Whilst this paper was not published in Philosophical Transactions, its abstract does appear in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.
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- 16 April 1841
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Paper, 'Investigation of a new and simple series by which the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference may easily by computed to any required degree of accuracy' by William Rutherford, 16 April 1841, PT/25/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_25_13/paper-investigation-of-a-new-and-simple-series-by-which-the-ratio-of-the-diameter-of-a-circle-to-its-circumference-may-easily-by-computed-to-any-required-degree-of-accuracy-by-william-rutherford, accessed on 17 April 2025
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