Hippocrates of Chios -- his elements and his lunes. A critique of circular reasoning

DOI10.3934/math.2020010zbMath1484.01001OpenAlexW2981707235MaRDI QIDQ2132770

Jens Høyrup

Publication date: 28 April 2022

Published in: AIMS Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/math.2020010

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander of Aphrodisiaslunes``elements in Greek geometrypre-axiomatic Greek geometrySimplicios

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03)

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