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  • The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics :[electronic resource].A Study in Cognitive History.
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 510/.938
    Title/Author: The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics : : A Study in Cognitive History.
    Author: Netz, Reviel.
    Published: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 1999.
    Description: 351 p.
    Series: Ideas in Context, 51
    Subject: Mathematics, Greek.
    ISBN: 9780511543296 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780521622790 (print)
    [NT 15000228]: Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; The Greek alphabet; Note on the figures; Introduction; A specimen of Greek mathematics; CHAPTER 1 The lettered diagram; CHAPTER 2 The pragmatics of letters; CHAPTER 3 The mathematical lexicon; CHAPTER 4 Formulae; CHAPTER 5 The shaping of necessity; CHAPTER 6 The shaping of generality; CHAPTER 7 The historical setting; APPENDIX The main Greek mathematicians cited in the book; Bibliography; Index; Ideas in Context
    [NT 15000229]: This book provides a way into understanding a momentous development in human intellectual history: the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics. The argument rests upon 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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