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The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions (Paperback)
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The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions (Paperback)
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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.
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