{"title":"A Small Correction to a Paper of Vandermonde","authors":"Matthew Davis, Shiv Gupta","doi":"10.4236/OJDM.2021.112004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper using elementary Galois Theory, we give a detailed explanation of the calculation of the radical expression for π which was first dis-cussed by Vandermonde decades before Galois and we point out and correct a minor correction in his work which was also observed by Lagrange.","PeriodicalId":61712,"journal":{"name":"离散数学期刊(英文)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"离散数学期刊(英文)","FirstCategoryId":"1093","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJDM.2021.112004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this paper using elementary Galois Theory, we give a detailed explanation of the calculation of the radical expression for π which was first dis-cussed by Vandermonde decades before Galois and we point out and correct a minor correction in his work which was also observed by Lagrange.