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In the title of Chapter 2, mathematicians are said to be humans who count and arrange. Now this is supplemented by the statement that they also draw and compare. Although some drawings were used in Chapter 2 to illustrate numbers as relations concerning distances between points, now numbers no longer stand at the beginning of our considerations. Instead, we now start from points in drawings or in space.
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Wendt, S. (2010). Mathematicians Are Nothing Special – They Draw and Compare. In: Roots of Modern Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12062-6_3
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