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- catalog contributor b12570908.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "1. General introduction -- 2. The legitimation of geometrical procedures before 1590 -- 3. 1588: Pappus' "Collection" -- 4. The early modern tradition of geometrical problem solving: survey and examples -- 5. Early modern methods of analysis -- 6. Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and analysis -- 7. Using numbers in geometry -- Regiomontanus and Stevin -- 8. Using algebra -- Viete's analysis -- 9. Clavius -- 10. Viete -- 11. Kepler -- 12. Molther -- 13. Fermat -- 14. Geometrical problem solving -- the state of the art c. 1635 -- 15. Introduction to Part II -- 16. Construction and the interpretation of exactness in Descartes' studies of c. 1619 -- 17. Descartes' general construction of solid problems c. 1625.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-453) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 470 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0387950907 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Springer,".
- catalog subject "516 21".
- catalog subject "Descartes, René, 1596-1650.".
- catalog subject "Geometrical constructions History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Geometry History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "QA464 .B69 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. General introduction -- 2. The legitimation of geometrical procedures before 1590 -- 3. 1588: Pappus' "Collection" -- 4. The early modern tradition of geometrical problem solving: survey and examples -- 5. Early modern methods of analysis -- 6. Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and analysis -- 7. Using numbers in geometry -- Regiomontanus and Stevin -- 8. Using algebra -- Viete's analysis -- 9. Clavius -- 10. Viete -- 11. Kepler -- 12. Molther -- 13. Fermat -- 14. Geometrical problem solving -- the state of the art c. 1635 -- 15. Introduction to Part II -- 16. Construction and the interpretation of exactness in Descartes' studies of c. 1619 -- 17. Descartes' general construction of solid problems c. 1625.".
- catalog title "Redefining geometrical exactness : Descartes' transformation of the early modern concept of construction / Henk J.M. Bos.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".