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The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context) by Reviel Netz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context) about?
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.
Who reads The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Reviel Netz
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521622790
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Mathematics, History, Science
Other editions & translations
- The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context, Series Number 51) (1999)
- The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context) (1999)
- The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context) (2008)
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