The twofold role of diagrams in Euclid's plane geometry

DOI10.1007/s11229-012-0074-2zbMath1274.01011OpenAlexW2061319545MaRDI QIDQ375269

Marco Panza

Publication date: 29 October 2013

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0074-2

zbMATH Keywords

Eucliddiagramsplane geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03)

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Operationalism: an interpretation of the philosophy of ancient Greek geometry ⋮ Uses of construction in problems and theorems in Euclid's \textit{Elements} I--VI ⋮ Are Euclid’s Diagrams ‘Representations’? On an Argument by Ken Manders ⋮ Enthymemathical Proofs and Canonical Proofs in Euclid’s Plane Geometry ⋮ Cognitive artifacts for geometric reasoning ⋮ Mathematical Pictures

Uses Software

• DRaFT

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• Human diagrammatic reasoning and seeing-as
• Kant on geometry and spatial intuition
• Rethinking geometrical exactness
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