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In this fascinating study, Prof. Klein investigates the revival and assimilation of Greek mathematics in the sixteenth century from the specific standpoint of the conceptual transformation which occured in the course of that assimilation. This fundamental change in the concept of number made possible modern science - in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. While establishing that modern numerical concepts did not flow directly from ancient ones, the author nevertheless illuminates the Greek concept of number and the genuine Greek achievement in the theory of number. This seminal work, reprinted here complete with a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art, is must reading for all students and professionals in the history of science and mathematics.
Titre original : Die griechische Logistik und die Entstehung der Algebra (1934)
2013 Editions Dover Publications
Langue française | 224 pages
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