“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Opinionated History of Mathematics - Een podcast door Intellectual Mathematics
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The use of diagrams in geometry raise questions about the place of the physical, the sensory, the human in mathematical reasoning. Multiple sources of evidence speak to how these dilemmas were tackled in antiquity: the linguistics of diagram construction, the state of drawings in the oldest extant manuscripts, commentaries of philosophers, and implicit assumptions in mathematical proofs.
