Euclid's Data
The Importance of Being Given
This is a scholarly contribution to an area -- the history of Greek geometrical analysis -- that is still insufficiently understood. At the time of Zeuthen, and even up to the middle of the last century, it was fashionable to treat the Data algebraically. Taisbak has abandoned this approach completely, arguing that it does nothing to help us to understand either the development of the work or the reasons for its having been copied, studied, and quoted for more than two millennia. We must bear a queer sort of frustration that affects us everywhere in the Data: we get very little information, hardly any 'knowledge' of the givens. And why not? P…
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- ISBN: 978-87-7289-815-5
- EAN: 9788772898155
- Produktnummer: 39068907
- Verlag: Museum Tusculanum Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 271 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.8 cm 672 g
- Abbildungen: b/w illus
- Gewicht: 672
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