On mathematical towers of Babel and ``translation as an epistemic category

DOI10.1007/S00283-020-09969-XMaRDI QIDQ2154147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Friedman

Publication date 14 July 2022

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-020-09969-x

zbMATH Keywords

modelsinterpretationsdescriptive geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60)

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