The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History - Paperback

by Reviel Netz (Author), Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor)

This book provides a way to understand a momentous development in human intellectual history: the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics. The argument rests on a close description of the practices of Greek mathematics, principally the use of lettered diagrams and the regulated, formulaic use of language.