Analogy and the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
Analogy and the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
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类比与数学知识的增长
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-015-9558-2_20
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
E. Knobloch
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作者:
E. Knobloch
High esteem for the mathematical discoveries and rigorous argumentation of the ancient mathematicians like Euclid or Archimedes has always been accompanied by astonished speculation about how after all they had found their results, which were subsequently demonstrated in such an exemplary way that they became paradigms of rigorous argumentation. Thus we find that Kepler as well as Leibniz appealed to Archimedes in the context of justification. What is more, Leibniz justified his differential calculus (LMG 5, 350) by saying that the difference from the style of Archimedes consists only in the expressions (expression), which in his method are more direct and more appropriate to the art of inventing (art d’inventer). His differential calculus is only a new kind of notation, novum notationis genus (Leibniz 1714, 404).