2013
DOI: 10.4000/anabases.4450
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Otto Neugebauer’s Vision for Rewriting the History of Ancient Mathematics

Abstract: Les historiens des mathématiques ont longtemps exalté les réalisations des anciens Grecs, symbolisées par un seul nom, Euclide d’Alexandrie. Les treize livres qui composent ses Éléments occupent, dans les mathématiques grecques, une place comparable au Parthénon dans sa tradition architecturale. L’appréciation du classicisme grec a en outre été renforcée par l’idéal de la géométrie euclidienne, un style qui a persisté jusqu’en plein xixe siècle. Il a fallu attendre les premières décennies du xxe siècle pour qu… Show more

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“…One might perhaps say that Neugebauer used our algebra as a means to verify the results of Babylonian mathematics, and as a means to cautiously interpret its methods as well. By a close analysis of the texts, he showed that this exercise in translation is possible, and occurs quite naturally, once the code used by the authors of the cuneiform tablets is broken, a feat in decipherment prowess that is the knack of the accomplished mathematician (Høyrup, 1991;Swerdlow, 1993;Rowe, 2012Rowe, , 2016.…”
Section: On Mathematical Anachronism: the Problemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One might perhaps say that Neugebauer used our algebra as a means to verify the results of Babylonian mathematics, and as a means to cautiously interpret its methods as well. By a close analysis of the texts, he showed that this exercise in translation is possible, and occurs quite naturally, once the code used by the authors of the cuneiform tablets is broken, a feat in decipherment prowess that is the knack of the accomplished mathematician (Høyrup, 1991;Swerdlow, 1993;Rowe, 2012Rowe, , 2016.…”
Section: On Mathematical Anachronism: the Problemmentioning
confidence: 99%