The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 283 inherited from the Greeks they developed in this direction without being ...

284 François charette been circulating in Alexandria before his lifetime. 31 With the decline of Hellenism, the rigidly systemat ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 285 the Indologist Edward Strachey (1813, 1818) who fi rst positively formu- ...

286 François charette Th us Egyptian theory is inductive, and Greek theory is deductive. Th ales, when he obtained his geometric ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 287 Indians. Of course, it was no longer possible, at the end of the nineteen ...

288 François charette Identifying the origin of al-Khwārizmī’s algebra presented more serious diffi culties, since it diff ered ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 289 Indians used to do in their siddhantas. Were they motivated by a concern ...

290 François charette students of the Greeks, and, although relatively very little was known around 1900, their works revealed – ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 291 distinguishing feature between pre-scientifi c and scientifi c mathemat- ...

292 François charette science was, indeed, a major characteristic of scholarship in the history of science during the last quart ...

Th e logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental 293 Carra de Vaux B. , ( 1893 ) ‘ Les sphères célestes selon Nasîr-Eddîn Attû ...

294 8 Th e pluralism of Greek ‘mathematics’ G. E. R. L l o y d Greek mathēmatikē , as has oft en been pointed out, is far from b ...

Th e pluralism of Greek ‘mathematics’ 295 about that) related to, or used, one or other branch of mathematics, namely Hippocrate ...

296 g e o f f r e y L l o y d it is clear that ideas about what counts as a good, or even a proper, method of doing so diff ered ...

Th e pluralism of Greek ‘mathematics’ 297 device attributed to him, the so-called quadratrix, is too sophisticated for the fi ft ...

298 g e o f f r e y L l o y d especially (3) on what counts as proper, valid, arguments and methods. Let me deal briefl y with t ...

Th e pluralism of Greek ‘mathematics’ 299 in the passage just quoted from Pappus he included both the construction of models of ...

300 g e o f f r e y L l o y d 428.29–430.1): ‘it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired, by the method, some know ...

Th e pluralism of Greek ‘mathematics’ 301 heavenly bodies, but in that of events on earth on their basis – astrology, in other w ...

302 g e o f f r e y L l o y d specifi cally to attack the importation into medicine of methods and ideas that he associates with ...