Strategies for conceptual change: Ratio and proportion in classical Greek mathematics

DOI10.1016/0039-3681(94)00034-7zbMATH Open0838.01002OpenAlexW1990903875MaRDI QIDQ4852880FDOQ4852880

Authors: Paul Rusnock, Paul Thagard 

Publication date: 11 June 1996

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0039-3681(94)00034-7

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zbMATH Keywords

incommensurablestheory of ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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