Ancient Rhetoric and Greek Mathematics: A Response to a Modern Historiographical Dilemma

DOI10.1017/S0269889703000863zbMath1193.01009OpenAlexW2109384197MaRDI QIDQ3525884

Alain Bernard

Publication date: 19 September 2008

Published in: Science in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889703000863

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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Cites Work

• On the need to rewrite the history of Greek mathematics
• Archimedes transformed: The case of a result stating a maximum for a cubic equation
• Sophistic aspects of Pappus \textit{Collection}.
• Another look at Greek geometrical analysis
• History of Ancient Mathematics--Some Reflections on the State of the Art

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