The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions

Th e Sanskrit tradition: the case of G. F. W. Th ibaut 263 enigmatical shortness... but the commentaries leave no doubt about th ...

264 agathe keller Th us there was a discrepancy between Th ibaut’s statements concerning his methodology and his philological pr ...

Th e Sanskrit tradition: the case of G. F. W. Th ibaut 265 Besides the quaint and clumsy terminology oft en employed for the exp ...

266 agathe keller scientifi c text, and thus also an inkling about what kind of scientifi c text he suspected spawned the śulbas ...

Th e Sanskrit tradition: the case of G. F. W. Th ibaut 267 Th is geometrical basis distinguished the śulbasūtra s from medieval ...

268 agathe keller In his view, this knowledge might be quite remarkable but it was ill pre- sented. Th us commenting a couple ye ...

Th e Sanskrit tradition: the case of G. F. W. Th ibaut 269 Because he had an acute idea of what was logically necessary, Th ibau ...

270 agathe keller the fact that the square on the diagonal is divided by its own diagonals into four triangles, one of which is ...

Th e Sanskrit tradition: the case of G. F. W. Th ibaut 271 For instance, Th ibaut examined the many various caturaśrakaran. a – ...

272 agathe keller Conclusion Th ibaut, as we have thus seen, embodied contradictions. On the one hand, he swept aside the Sanskr ...

Th e Sanskrit tradition: the case of G. F. W. Th ibaut 273 Srinivas , M. D. ( 1990 ) ‘ Th e methodology of Indian mathematics an ...

274 7 Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental: on the historiography of ‘non-Western’ mathematics during the period 1 ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 275 by labelling it the ‘forthright formulation’ of the ideology under scruti ...

276 François charette demonstrations: ‘look at the fi gure’ he says, allowing nothing but illustrative demon strations [ Anschau ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 277 knowledge of the East; and it is much to be feared that the means of remo ...

278 François charette Contexts and predecessors In France, the geometer Michel Chasles (1793–1880) and the exiled Italian mathem ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 279 death in 1873. It was published posthumously the next year by his father, ...

280 François charette precise formulation of the idea opposing the apodictic rationality of Greek mathematical practice to the m ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 281 form of demonstration, it is tremendously characteristic for the mental c ...

282 François charette style as being intrinsically an impediment to mathematical progress, for he went as far as declaring that ...