Overview
- Constitutes a "Reader book" of the history of Greek mathematics which is today rather timely in many respects
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 240)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Studies on Proportion Theory and Incommensurability
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Front Matter
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Studies on Greek Algebra
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Keywords
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Reviews
From the reviews:
In Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics, Christianidis has provided a very useful collection of papers that encompass many of these changes. Here one can find Unguru's original papers (and the angry responses they elicited), discussions of the supposed "crisis of foundations", papers on the origin of Greek axiomatics, on geometry and "algebra". The papers, alas, are in their original languages (German, French, and English), but anglophone readers can be reassured that most of the articles are in English, especially the more recent ones. In any case, this is an excellent place to go to learn what the historians have been up to, and the give-and-take of debate makes it fascinating. The book is probably too expensive for non-fanatic individual readers, but it is definitely a "must buy" for libraries [Fernando Q. Gouvêa; posted to MAA Reviews 1/11/2006]
"This is a tool for working historian … because it offers a cross-section of the main historiographical currents that represents well the evolution of the field in the last decades. … Essays are reproduced that date back more than 40 years, and written in French or German. This is a very important feature of the book, especially because a large portion of contemporary scholarship appears to resort almost exclusively to the most recent secondary literature and to contributions written in English." (Fabio Acerbi, Aestimatio, Issue 3, 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics
Editors: Jean Christianidis
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2640-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0081-2Published: 16 September 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5850-8Published: 07 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2640-9Published: 18 April 2013
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 474
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Science, Popular Science, general