Defence of a 'shocking' point of view

DOI10.1007/BF00412256zbMATH Open0335.01002OpenAlexW4250222187MaRDI QIDQ1229192FDOQ1229192

Authors: B. L. van der Waerden 

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00412256

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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• What is ``geometric algebra, and what has it been in historiography?
• Conceptual divergence -- canons and taboos -- and critique: reflections on explanatory categories
• Situating the Debate on “Geometrical Algebra” within the Framework of Premodern Algebra
• The ancients and the moderns: Chasles on Euclid's lost \textit{porisms} and the pursuit of geometry
• Abraham J. Sachs (1914--1983): in memoriam
• Origins and Application of Geometry in the Thera Prehistoric Civilization Ca. 1650 BC
• Of our own nation: John Wallis's account of mathematical learning in medieval England

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