ludic proof - greek mathematics and the alexandrian aesthetic - r netz (cambridge, 2009) ww

... explicit structure moves in the other direction: the introduction and the first three chapters serve to present the aesthetic characteristics of Preface xi Hellenistic mathematics, while the fourth chapter ... not in the generalized polemical characteristics of Greek culture, but rather in a much more precise interface between the aesthetics of poetry and of mathematics...

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