The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions - Couverture souple

Chemla, Karine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107527538 ISBN 13 : 9781107527539

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle by showing how much of that view is an artefact of nineteenth-century historical scholarship. It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the correctness of algorithms, which are much more prominent outside the limited range of surviving classical Greek texts that historians have taken as the paradigm of ancient mathematics. It opens the way to providing the first comprehensive, textually based history of proof.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Karine Chemla is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (Research Unit SPHERE, France) and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She is also Professor on a Guest Chair at Northwestern University, Xi'an, as well as at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Hebei Normal University, China. She was awarded a 'Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior Foreign Scientists' in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107527538
• ISBN 13: 9781107527539
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 614
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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