Pythagorejská matematika vo svetle karteziánskej fyziky

• Authors: Ladislav Kvasz

Title variants

EN

Pythagorean Mathematics in the Light of Cartesian Physics

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This paper is the second part in a series of articles aimed at reconstructing the emergence of mathematics as a deductive discipline in ancient Greece in the period between Thales and Euclid. We understand the emergence of mathematics as the birth of a language which enables the undertaking of deductive proofs. While in the preceding part we focused on the beginnings of Greek mathematics in Thales, here we concentrate on Pythagorean mathematics. In the literature the significance of Pythagoras as a mathematician is called into doubt. Despite this, the main part of the paper involves a reconstruction of the cognitive style of Pythagorean mathematics and this reconstruction is the basis for a defence of its authenticity.

Keywords

EN

history of mathematics; Pythagoras; proof; Walter Burkert

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 513-541
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ladislav  Kvasz

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic