“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
The use of diagrams in geometry raise questions about the place of the physical, the sensory, the human in mathematical reasoning. Multiple sources of evidence speak to how these dilemmas were tackled in antiquity: the linguistics of diagram constructi...
Opinionated History of Mathematics
March 10, 202151m 12s
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The use of diagrams in geometry raise questions about the place of the physical, the sensory, the human in mathematical reasoning. Multiple sources of evidence speak to how these dilemmas were tackled in antiquity: the linguistics of diagram construction, the state of drawings in the oldest extant manuscripts, commentaries of philosophers, and implicit assumptions in … <a href="https://intellectualmathematics.com/blog/let-it-have-been-drawn-the-role-of-diagrams-in-geometry/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry</span></a>