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Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Greek geometry is written in a style adapted to oral teaching. Mathematicians memorised theorems the way bards memorised poems. Several oddities about how Euclid’s Elements is written can be explained this way. Transcrip...
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Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry is an episode from Opinionated History of Mathematics by Intellectual Mathematics. Greek geometry is written in a style adapted to oral teaching. Mathematicians memorised theorems the way...
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Published Jun 21, 2020, 40:10 long, audio available.
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