An Apology of Pythagorean Mathematics

• Authors: Krol Z.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper emphasizes the role of ancient mathematics in the philosophical considerations in Pythagorean school and contains a reconstruction of some basic mathematical ideas giving reason for the explanation of many early-Pythagorean fragments. Some contributions to the discovery of incommensurability within Pythagorean school are presented. Their importance for mathematics cannot be overestimated. Then the course of mathematically oriented inquiries is set against some purely philological studies.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS; INCOMMENSURABILITY; PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS; PYTHAGORAS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1(61)
• Pages: 5-20
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Krol Z.

• Z. Krol, Instytut Filozovfiii Socjologii PAN, Zaklad Teorii Poznania i Filozofii Nauki, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03827645