scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1551770

MaRDI QIDQ4524006zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Geoffrey Lloyd

Publication date 29 August 2001

zbMATH Keywords

Aristotleaxiomatic-deductive methodPlato

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

Reasoning through examples was usually downgraded in Greek thought, because of the esteem of incontrovertible knowledge acquired by the axiomatic-deductive method, initiated by Plato and established by Aristotle. The author, drawing on recent studies of K. Chemla on the \textit{Nine Chapters} and of R. Netz on Greek mathematics, points out the important role as examples played by diagrams in Greek geometry, and argues its similarity and contrast with the role of numerical examples in Chinese mathematical text. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0946.00009].

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