scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1943950

MaRDI QIDQ4409997zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jean-Louis Gardies

Publication date 19 March 2004

zbMATH Keywords

Greek mathematicsheuristic method of analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

In this paper the author discusses in Greek mathematics the role of the heuristic method of analysis in the sense that one works backwards from a conjecture to already established results. He discusses several examples from Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Pappus and Diophantus. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1005.00011].

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