From the Practice of Explanation to the Ideology of Demonstration: An Informal Essay

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-01617-3_2zbMath1423.97002OpenAlexW2909381023MaRDI QIDQ5241551

Jens Høyrup

Publication date: 31 October 2019

Published in: Interfaces between Mathematical Practices and Mathematical Education (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/30d6cd54-3106-4c15-bc72-c431bb3171e7

zbMATH Keywords

EuclidDardi of PisaHippocrates of Chioscritique in early Greek geometryexplanation as demonstrationoinopidesOld Babylonian mathematical critiquesimplicios

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of mathematics education (97-03)

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