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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Ancient Mathematics"”.
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Writing Practical Mathematics in Greek and Roman Antiquity
… increasing interest in the historiography of mathematics outside the canonical texts. In the case of ancient mathematics preserved from classical antiquity, this has included a focus on reading texts as evidence for mathematical practice, and attempts to place them in their socio-historical …
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Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
… a thorough survey of Greek works of theoretical mathematics; I will outline the schools’ characteristic features and histories, and show how the influences of philosophical movements and intellectual social networks affected their practices. Each of the four chapters addresses the ways in which …
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Geometrism: How geometrical fundamentalism came to shape our world
This thesis critically examines how abstract geometric ideals, initially emerging from Pythagorean thought and Mathematical Platonism, have shaped our understanding and organization of the world in profound and often unrecognized and unexpected ways, ways that are often reductive, alienating, and …