Eudoxos and Dedekind: On the ancient Greek theory of ratios and its relation to modern mathematics

DOI10.1007/BF00485011zbMath0722.01004OpenAlexW4249495769MaRDI QIDQ2641282

Howard Stein

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00485011

zbMATH Keywords

real numbersArchimedesEuclid's \textit{Elements}complete field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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