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1 online resource (399 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; I. The Meaning, Purpose and Methods of the History of Mathematics and of Logic page; II. Pre-Hellenic Mathematics; III. Greek Mathematics before Euclid; IV. The Logic of Aristotle; V. Euclid's Elements in Hellenistic culture; VI. Infinitesimal Methods in Classical Times: Archimedes; VII. Introduction to Higher Geometry: Apollonius and His Followers; VIII. Mathematics in the Roman World; IX. The Decline of Ancient Science; X. Mathematics and Logic in the Middle Ages; XI. The Mathematical Renaissance and the Algebraists |
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XII. Origins of Analytical Geometry and Cartesian Rationalism: Vico's GnoseologyXIII. Modern Infinitesimal Analysis and the Philosophical Thought of its Constructors; XIV. From the Origins of Projective Geometry to the Development of the Erlanger Programme; XV. Criticism of Euclid's Postulate V: Non-Euclidean Geometries; XVI. Combinatorial Analysis and Calculus of Probability; XVII. Sets, Functions, Curves, Non-Archimedean Geometries; XVIII. Symbolic Logic and the Fundamentals of Arithmetic; XIX. Hypothetical-Deductive Systems, Non-Contradictoriness, Antinomies |
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XX. Problems of Contemporary LogicBibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History
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Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Logic -- History
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Logic
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Mathematics
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Mathematics -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quigly, Isabel
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| ISBN |
9781351506625 |
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1351506625 |
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