THE

QUADRATURE OF THE CIRCLE

CORRESPONDENCE

BETWEEN

AN EMINENT MATHEMATICIAN

AND

JAMES SMITH, ESQ.

(MEMBER OF THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD,)

AUTHOR OF THE QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY COMMENSURABLE RELATIONS BETWEEN A
CIRCLE AND OTHER GEOMETRICAL FIGURES? ANSWERED BY A MEMBER OF

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.'

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION,

CORRESPONDENCE,

APPENDIX A.-"The Question: Are there any Commensurable

Relations between a Circle and other Geometrical Figures?

Answered by a Member of the British Association for the

Advancement of Science,"

APPENDIX B.-Paper read in the Mathematical Section of the

British Association for the Advancement of Science, at their

Twenty-ninth Meeting, held at Aberdeen, on Wednesday,

the 21st September, 1859, Sir Wm. R. Hamilton, LL.D.,

M.R.I.A., Astronomer-Royal of Ireland, in the chair-" On

the Relations of a Circle inscribed in a Square,"

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