Descartes and the geometrization of thought: The methodological background of Descartes' geometrie

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(79)90023-5zbMath0427.00007OpenAlexW2073680727MaRDI QIDQ1136731

Timothy Lenoir

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(79)90023-5

zbMATH Keywords

geometrization of thought

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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