Proof in C17 Algebra
This paper considers the birth of algebraic proof by looking at the works of Cardano, Viète, Harriot and Pell. The transition from geometric to algebraic proof was mediated by appeals to the Eudoxan theory of proportions in book V of Euclid. The crucial notational innovation was the development of b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Éditions Kimé
2005-08-01
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| Series: | Philosophia Scientiæ |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/378 |
| Summary: | This paper considers the birth of algebraic proof by looking at the works of Cardano, Viète, Harriot and Pell. The transition from geometric to algebraic proof was mediated by appeals to the Eudoxan theory of proportions in book V of Euclid. The crucial notational innovation was the development of brackets. By the middle of the seventeenth century, geometric proof was unsustainable as the sole standard of rigour because mathematicians had developed such a number and range of techniques that could not be justified in geometric terms. |
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| ISSN: | 1281-2463 1775-4283 |