The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions

Mathematical proof: a research programme 3 and China mediated by the missionaries, mathematical proof played a role having littl ...

4 karine chemla ‘some central parts of [the] philosophy [of some philosophers], parts that have nothing intrinsically to do with ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 5 a scientifi c community, history and philosophy of science emerged during that centur ...

6 karine chemla proof. As we shall see, comparable debates on the practice of proof have developed within the fi eld of mathemat ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 7 for example, thereby leaving little doubt as to Colebrooke’s estimation of these sour ...

8 karine chemla accompanied by proofs, we fi nd more than one historian in the nineteenth century expressing his conviction that ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 9 garded the evidence already available’. One could add that the assumption that outsid ...

10 karine chemla computing with them. Can we believe that proving the correctness of these algorithms was not a key issue for At ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 11 Understanding what other elements played a part in the shaping of our nar- rative is ...

12 karine chemla sources with mathematical analysis in mind. His comparisons were with Wallis or D’Alembert. On the other hand, ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 13 Th ey worked independently of each other and the proofs they discussed were quite di ...

14 karine chemla truth of a piece of knowledge and convincing an opponent of the incontro- vertibility of an assertion seem to b ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 15 To examine this question, let us restrict the discussion to mathemati- cal proof as ...

16 karine chemla actual work seem quite diff erent and multifaceted, in fact. Some insight on this point can be gained from the ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 17 In connection with this issue, and to return to the question whether cer- tainty is ...

18 karine chemla New perspectives, or: the project of the book From this vantage point, two conclusions can be discerned. Firstl ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 19 a priori by reference to norms and values that would appear to us as charac- terizin ...

20 karine chemla collective work involved in the making of a proof eventually produced and written down by an individual, W. Th ...

Mathematical proof: a research programme 21 Klamroth, a historian who specialized in Arabic mathematics. Th e debate concerned t ...

22 karine chemla edition of Archimedes’ writings.^36 What can we learn about the issue of proof by examining the philologist’s i ...