Mathematics · History & Philosophy of Mathematics
A topic within History & Philosophy of Mathematics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Mathematics.
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Euclid (trans. Thomas L. Heath)
Builds the whole of classical geometry and much of number theory from five postulates and a handful of common notions, establishing the axiomatic method as the model for what a mathematical proof is.
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Reconstructs early Greek mathematics from fragmentary and often second-hand sources, arguing that the deductive method itself, not any single theorem, was the Greeks' distinctive contribution.
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