Are Euclid’s Diagrams ‘Representations’? On an Argument by Ken Manders

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-95201-3_7MaRDI QIDQ6098765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Waszek

Publication date 14 June 2023

Published in Annals of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95201-3_7

zbMATH Keywords

Euclid's diagramsmathematical diagramsrepresentations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methodology of mathematics (00A35) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30) History of geometry (51-03)

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