Ideas in Context Reviel Netz THE SHAPING OF DEDUCTION IN GREEK MATHEMATICS A Study in Cognitive History 2003
pdf | 1.26 MB | English | Isbn: 978-0521541206 | Author: Netz, Reviel. | Year: 2003
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This book provides a way to understand a momentous development in human intellectual history: the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics. The argument rests on a close description of the practices of Greek mathematics, principally the use of lettered diagrams and the regulated, formulaic use of language.
Category:Mathematical Logic, Mathematics History, Greek & Roman Philosophy