Rethinking geometrical exactness

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2010.09.001MaRDI QIDQ618040zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Panza

Publication date 14 January 2011

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2010.09.001

zbMATH Keywords

constructionsDescartes' geometryEuclidean plane geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of geometry (51-03) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

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