Method

Method of exhaustion

Overview

primitive way of calculating area

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Philosophers who discussed Method of exhaustion

• Democritus

Related ideas

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Infinitesimal
• Archimedes
• Reductio ad absurdum
• Euclid's Elements
• Galileo Galilei
• Eudoxus of Cnidus
• Calculus
• Christopher Wren
• Circle
• Euclid

Place in the tradition

Part of Democritus.

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