Opinionated History of Mathematics
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
June 21, 2020
Greek geometry is written in a style adapted to oral teaching. Mathematicians memorised theorems the way bards memorised poems. Several oddities about how Euclid’s Elements is written can be explained this way.
History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists
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