New History of Greek Mathematics

The chapters in this volume cover the full range of Plato's interests, including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, religion, mathematics, and psychology. The introduction provides general guidance to approaching Plato's corpus and the chapters introduce key ideas and scholarly debates.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. To the Threshold of Greek Mathematics; 2. The Generation of Archytas; 3. The Generation of Archimedes; 4. Mathematics in the World; 5. Mathematics of the Stars; 6. The Canonization of Greek Mathematics; 7. Into Modern Science: The Legacy of Greek Mathematics.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

REVIEL NETZ is Patrick Suppes Professor of Greek Mathematics and Astronomy at Stanford University. He is the author of many books on Greek mathematics and culture, including The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics (Cambridge, 1999), The Archimedes Codex (co-authored with William Noel, 2007), Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (Cambridge, 2009) and Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture (Cambridge, 2020).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Reviel Netz, Reviel (Stanford University Netz, Netz Reviel
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781108833844
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83384-4
• Seiten: 540
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Mathematik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy of Mathematics, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, History of mathematics, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500