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The development of Euclidean axiomatics

Archive for History of Exact Sciences · 2016 · 63 citations · 17 references

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Natural SciencesMathematicsApplied MathematicsGeometryLogicArithmetic GeometryClassical GeometryEuclidean AlgorithmEuclidean GeometryNon-euclidean GeometryPhilosophy Of GeometryAxiomatic Foundations Of GeometryAxiomaticsTheorems Of Euclidean Geometry

Abstract

The paper lists several editions of Euclid’s Elements in the Early Modern Age, giving for each of them the axioms and postulates employed to ground elementary mathematics.

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