Philosophy of mathematics and mathematic
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Paolo Mancosu
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Library
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1996
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Oxford University Press
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English
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The seventeenth century saw dramatic advances in mathematical theory and practice. With the recovery of many of the classical Greek mathematical texts, new techniques were introduced, and within 100 years, the rules of analytic geometry, geometry of indivisibles, arithmatic of infinites, and calculu