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I started investigations in the last two decades, which shed — I hope — some new light upon several problems of the history, as well as of the philosophy, of mathematics. Now I shall try to characterize here not so much the results of this research, as some of the problems dealt with and the methods I followed in these investigations.
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Szabó, A.K. (1984). How to Explore the History of Ancient Mathematics?. In: Cohen, R.S., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6331-3_12
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