After Euclid

Jesse Norman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2005
Centre for the Study of Language & Information (Verlag)
978-1-57586-509-6 (ISBN)

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Reexamines the ancient and long-disregarded concept of visual reasoning and reasserts its potential as a formidable tool in our ability to grasp various kinds of geometrical knowledge. A detailed philosophical case study, this text will be useful for scholars in the fields of mathematics and philosophy.

What does it mean to have visual intuition? Can we gain geometrical knowledge by using visual reasoning? And if we can, is it because we have a faculty of intuition? In "After Euclid", Jesse Norman reexamines the ancient and long-disregarded concept of visual reasoning and reasserts its potential as a formidable tool in our ability to grasp various kinds of geometrical knowledge. The first detailed philosophical case study of its kind, this text is essential reading for scholars in the fields of mathematics and philosophy.

Jesse Norman is honorary research fellow in philosophy at University College London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.9.2006
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes
Verlagsort	Stanford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	17 x 21 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
ISBN-10	1-57586-509-2 / 1575865092
ISBN-13	978-1-57586-509-6 / 9781575865096
Zustand	Neuware