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The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History

The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History

Hardcover

Series: Ideas in Context, Book 51

PhilosophyGeneral MathematicsLogic

ISBN10: 0521622794
ISBN13: 9780521622790
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 11 1999
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
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.

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