Patterns of Change Linguistic Innovations in the Development of Classical Mathematics /

• Main Author: Kvasz, Ladislav (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 36
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

This book offers a reconstruction of linguistic innovations in the history of mathematics; innovations which changed the ways in which mathematics was done, understood and philosophically interpreted. It argues that there are at least three ways in which the language of mathematics has been changed...