HOW TO COUNT THE UNCOUNTABLE? THE ARCHIMEDES' OF SYRACUSE METHOD(Jak policzyc niepoliczalne? Metoda Archimedesa z Syrakuz)

• Authors: Roszkowski Maciej
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses Archimedes' of Syracuse ideas concerning the problem of quantities too great for a given numeral system to be expressed. The analysis of solvings proposed by the mathematician of Syracuse is accompanied by remarks on problems with Greek writing systems before Archimedes' works.

Keywords

EN

MATHEMATICS; NUMERAL SYSTEM

Discipline

• SCIENCE_OF_SCIENCE: SCIENCE OF SCIENCE

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 321-330
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Roszkowski Maciej

• Maciej Roszkowski, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii, pl. Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA088525