To Diagram, to Demonstrate: To Do, To See, and To Judge in Greek Geometry

DOI10.1093/PHILMAT/NKR037MaRDI QIDQ4919652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philip Catton, Clemency Montelle

Publication date 15 May 2013

Published in Philosophia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkr037

zbMATH Keywords

diagramsGreek geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

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