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History of mathematics
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field of study that investigates the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past
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It showed at once that numerical measurement of lengths, if it was to be made accurate, must require an arithmetic more advanced and more difficult than any that the ancients possessed. They therefore set to work to reconstruct geometry on a basis which did not assume the universal possibility of numerical measurement--a reconstruction which, as may be seen in Euclid, they effected with extraordinary skill and with…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
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Geometry passed through a stage of abstraction like that examined in connection with arithmetic. Beginning with the discovery of non-Euclidian geometry, it has been becoming more and more evident that a line need not be a name for an aspect of a physical object such as the ridge-pole line of a house and the like,…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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The notion of continuity depends upon that of _order_, since continuity is merely a particular type of order. Mathematics has, in modern times, brought order into greater and greater prominence. In former days, it was supposed (and philosophers are still apt to suppose) that quantity was the fundamental notion of mathematics. But nowadays, quantity is banished altogether, except from one little corner of Geometry…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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