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Hippocrates of Chios – His Elements and His Lunes A critique of circular reasoning

Autor: Jens Høyrup

Publikováno v: AIMS Mathematics, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 158-184 (2020)

Hippocrates of Chios, active during the later fifth century BCE, is stated in Proclos's “catalogue of geometers” to have been the first writer of elements, and is also known to have worked on the squaring of “lunes”, plane figures contained b

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When is the algorithm concept pertinent – and when not? Thoughts about algorithms and paradigmatic examples, and about algorithmic and non-algorithmic mathematical cultures1

Autor: Jens Høyrup

Publikováno v: AIMS Mathematics, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 211-232 (2018)

Until some decades ago, it was customary to discuss much pre-Modern mathematics as “algebra”, without agreement between workers about what was to be understood by that word. Then this view came under heavy fire, rarely with more precision. Now,

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What is 'geometric algebra', and what has it been in historiography?1

Autor: Jens Høyrup

Publikováno v: AIMS Mathematics, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 128-160 (2017)

Much ink has been spilled these last 50 years over the notion (or whatever it is) of “geometric algebra” – sometimes in disputes so hot that one would believe it to be blood. However, nobody has seemed too interested in analyzing whether others

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Which kind of mathematics was known and referred to by those who wanted to integrate mathematics in «Wisdom» –Neopythagoreans and others?

Autor: Jens Høyrup

Publikováno v: AIMS Mathematics, Vol 1, Iss 2, Pp 77-95 (2016)

Plato, so the story goes, held mathematics in high esteem, and those philosopher-kings that ought to rule his republic should have a thorough foundation in mathematics. This may well be true – but an observation made by Aristotle suggests that the

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