Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra

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Courier Corporation, 2013-04-22 - 384 psl.
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th–16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science — in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
 

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Purpose and plan of the inquiry
Logistic and arithmetic in Plato
The role of the theory of proportions in Nicomachus Theon and Domninus
Theoretical logistic and the problem of fractions
The concept of arithmos
The ontological conception of the arithmoi in Plato
The Aristotelian critique and the possibility of a theoretical logistic
On the difference between ancient and modern conceptualization
The Arithmetic of Diophantus as theoretical logistic The concept ofeidos in Diophantus
The concept of number
NOTES
Letter to Princess Mélusine
Concerning the laws of zetetics
The symbolism in equations and the epilogue to the
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