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 | #1763838 in Books |  1987 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.13 x1.02 x6.13l,1.47 | File type: PDF | 401 pages

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||22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| A brilliant, sprawling book|By Colin McLarty|Two things are certain if you really want to know what mathematics was done in Plato's Academy, and before Euclid: Your heart will break at the lack of evidence, and you will have to read this book.
Fowler details how thin the surviving evidence is, even for such basics as when Euclid's ELEMENTS were written. Drawing on other

This book presents a reinterpretation of early Greek mathematics, one of the most tantalizing intellectual subjects of the last 2,000 years. The first part offers several new interpretations of the idea of ratio in early Greek mathematics and illustrates them in detailed discussion of several texts. Part Two discusses the historical context of the subject--what we know of Plato's academy during his lifetime, the origin of our text of Euclid's Elements, and wha...

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