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On the need to rewrite the history of Greek mathematics
pp. 385-431
Abstract
...the past has meaning only in terms of the present. The impartial recovery of the past, uncontaminated by the influence of the present, is held up as a professional ideal, and a criterion of technical competence is the degree to which this ideal is reached. This ideal is, I believe, impossible of attainment, and cannot even be formulated without involvement with meaningless verbalisms.5
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Christianidis Jean (2004) Classics in the history of Greek mathematics. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 385-431
Full citation:
Unguru Sabetai (2004) „On the need to rewrite the history of Greek mathematics“, In: J. Christianidis (ed.), Classics in the history of Greek mathematics, Dordrecht, Springer, 385–431.