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Descartes's Mathematical Thought

Descartes's Mathematical Thought

Sasaki, C.

Paperback

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Book 237

PhilosophyGeneral MathematicsGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9048164877
ISBN13: 9789048164875
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 3 2010
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early modern China and Japan. Especially, it shows what the concept of mathesis universalis meant before and during the period of Descartes and how it influenced the young Descartes. In fact, it was the most fundamental mathematical discipline during the seventeenth century, and for Descartes a key notion which may have led to his novel mathematics of algebraic analysis.

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