The emergence of symbolic algebra as a shift in predominant models

DOI10.1007/s10699-008-9124-0zbMath1202.01038OpenAlexW2016505877MaRDI QIDQ1956457

Albrecht Heeffer

Publication date: 22 September 2010

Published in: Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-427773

zbMATH Keywords

equalitymoneyequationsalgebrasymbolismBabylonian mathematicsmercantilismmodel-based reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Equations in general fields (12E12) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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