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[Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science] Descartes’s Mathematical Thought Volume 237 || Interim Consideration

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Book ID
120026907
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
745 KB
Edition
6
Category
Article
ISBN
9401712255

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✦ Synopsis

Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early modern China and Japan. Especially, it shows what the concept of "mathesis universalis" meant before and during the period of Descartes and how it influenced the young Descartes. In fact, it was the most fundamental mathematical discipline during the seventeenth century, and for Descartes a key notion which may have led to his novel mathematics of algebraic analysis.

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