Irrationality, Transcendence and the Circle-Squaring Problem (2nd ed.)

This publication, now in its second edition, includes an unabridged and annotated translation of two works by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777) written in the 1760s:  Vorläufige Kenntnisse für die, so die Quadratur und Rectification des Circuls suchen and Mémoire sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques . The translations, as in the first edition, are accompanied by a contextualised study of each of these works and provide an overview