Number Theory for the Millenium

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rare Book Room Exhibit


MUELLER, JOHANNES REGIOMONTANUS (1436 - 1476). De triangulis omnimodis libri quinque…Accesserunt…Nicolai Cusani De quadratura circuli….itemque Jo. De Monte Regio eadem de re elektrika. Norimbergae: 1533.

The first edition of the first treatise devoted wholly to trigonometry, Regiomontanus' greatest contribution to science. The second part, by Johann Schoener, consists of a refutation of Cardinal Cusa's circle-squaring problems.


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