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Revolutions and continuity in Greek mathematics /
This volume brings together a number of leading scholars working in the field of ancient Greek mathematics to present their latest research. In their respective area of specialization, all contributors offer stimulating approaches to questions of historical and historiographical 'revolutions�...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: revolutions in Greek mathematics / Sialaros, Michalis
- Counter-revolutions in mathematics / Unguru, Sabetai
- Diophantus and premodern algebra: new light on an old image / Christianidis, Jean
- Geometer, in a landscape: embodied mathematics in Hero's Dioptra / Roby, Courtney
- How much does a theorem cost? / Sialaros, Michalis
- Diagrammatizing mathematics: some remarks on a revolutionary aspect of ancient Greek mathematics / Lattmann, Claas
- Composition and removal of ratios in geometric and logistic texts from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine period / Acerbi, Fabio
- Why did the Greeks develop proportion theory? A conjecture / Mendell, Henry
- Recursive knowledge procedures informing the design of the Parthenon : one instance of continuity between Greek and near Eastern mathematical practices / Lehman, Geoff / Weinman, Michael
- Diophantus, al-Karajī, and quadratic equations / Oaks, Jeffrey A.
- Substantiae sunt sicut numeri: Aristotle on the structure of numbers / Galluzzo, Gabriele
- The axiomatization of mathematics and Plato's conception of knowledge in the Meno and the Republic / Karasmanis, Vassilis
- The Anthyphairetic revolutions of the Platonic ideas / Negrepontis, Stelios.