Introduction: The History of Early Mathematics – Ways of Re-Writing

DOI10.1017/S0269889703000875MaRDI QIDQ3525877zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Reviel Netz

Publication date 19 September 2008

Published in Science in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

Cites work

• On the homocentric spheres of Eudoxus
• On the need to rewrite the history of Greek mathematics
• Reflections on Eudoxus, Callippus and their Curves: Hippopedes and Callippopedes
• Remarks on the history of the text of Euclid's Elements
• The Wrong Text of Euclid: On Heiberg's Text and its Alternatives
• The definitions of fundamental geometric entities contained in book I of Euclid's Elements

Cited in

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• The Arabic tradition of Euclid's \textit{Elements} preserved in the Latin translation by Adelard of Bath and the Hebrew translation by Rabbi Jacob
• Algebra and Geometry in the Old Babylonian Period: Matters Concerning Reeds
• An alternative to the Pythagorean rule? Reevaluating problem 1 of cuneiform tablet BM 34 568

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