| RefNo | AP/34/21 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the extension of the value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to 440 places at decimals' by William Rutherford |
| Date | 4 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'. |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0093 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8168 | Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician | 1784 - 1865 |
| NA8090 | Rutherford; William (1839 - 1899) | 1839 - 1899 |