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In the last twenty years, the issue of the “geometric algebra” of the ancient Geeks has been the subject of discussion by historians of mathematics. The key question that has attracted the attention of students of the mathematics of ancient civilizations has been whether “geometric algebra” was just a speculative construct of H.G. Zeuthen (1912) and P. Tannery (1930), who introduced modern notions into ancient mathematics, or whether these scholars managed to retrieve the true essence of the creations of the great Greeks.
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Bashmakova, I.G., Smirnova, G.S. (2000). Geometry: the First Universal Language of Mathematics. In: Grosholz, E., Breger, H. (eds) The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge. Synthese Library, vol 289. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9558-2_22
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