Patterns of change : linguistic innovations in the development of classical mathematics / Ladislav Kvasz.

The book offers a reconstruction of linguistic innovations in the history of mathematics. It argues that there are at least three ways in which the language of mathematics can be changed. As illustration of changes of the first kind, called re-codings, is the development along the line: synthetic ge...

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Main Author: Kvasz, Ladislav
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : [London] : Birkhäuser ; [Springer, distributor], ©2008.
Series:Science networks historical studies ; v. 36.
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