The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions

By: Karine Chemla

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107527538
• ISBN13: 9781107527539
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"