num_pages: 352
description: This book provides a way to understand a momentous development in human intellectual history: the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics. The argument rests on a close description of the practices of Greek mathematics principally the use of lettered diagrams and the regulated formulaic use of language.
language: English
title: The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History
publisher: Cambridge University Press