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

DOI10.1093/PHILMAT/NKR037zbMATH Open1266.01006OpenAlexW2160346186MaRDI QIDQ4919652FDOQ4919652

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

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zbMATH Keywords

diagramsGreek geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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