From the reviews: In Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics, Christianidis has provided a very useful collection of papers that encompass many of these changes. Here one can find Unguru's original papers (and the angry responses they elicited), discussions of the supposed "crisis of foundations", papers on the origin of Greek axiomatics, on geometry and "algebra". The papers, alas, are in their original languages (German, French, and English), but anglophone readers can be reassured that most of the articles are in English, especially the more recent ones. In any case, this is an excellent place to go to learn what the historians have been up to, and the give-and-take of debate makes it fascinating. The book is probably too expensive for non-fanatic individual readers, but it is definitely a "must buy" for libraries [Fernando Q. GouvA*a; posted to MAA Reviews 1/11/2006] "This is a tool for working historian ... because it offers a cross-section of the main historiographical currents that represents well the evolution of the field in the last decades. ... Essays are reproduced that date back more than 40 years, and written in French or German. This is a very important feature of the book, especially because a large portion of contemporary scholarship appears to resort almost exclusively to the most recent secondary literature and to contributions written in English." (Fabio Acerbi, Aestimatio, Issue 3, 2006)

Contains a selection of 19 papers on the history of Greek mathematics that were published during the 20th century and affected significantly the state of the art of this field. This book is divided into six thematic sections and covers all the major issues of the Greek mathematical production.
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Constitutes a "Reader book" of the history of Greek mathematics which is today rather timely in many respects
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ISBN
9781402000812
Publisert
2004-09-16
Utgiver
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
12

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