Timeline for History of the geometric series
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| Feb 5, 2020 at 1:22 | comment | added | David Eppstein | To user6530's answer add that the general formula for the sum of a finite geometric series (not just the earlier specific examples from e.g. the Rhind Papyrus) is in Euclid's Elements Prop. IX.35. | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 13:33 | comment | added | user6530 | Well... maybe infinite series do not originated in India, as Archimedes (III century BC) discussed in The Quadrature of the Parabola a geometric series with common ratio 1/4, while Nicole Oresme (1320-1382) discussed in Quaestiones super geometriam Euclidis convergence and divergence conditions for geometric series and obtained the sums of several geometric series (see e.g. here core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144470649.pdf) and also proved the divergence of the harmonic series. | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 8:05 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Jan 5, 2020 at 7:50 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 5, 2020 at 7:47 | history | answered | Vishwajeet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |