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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aestheticdi Reviel Netz
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Readers interested in mathematics, Hellenistic literature, or the history of aesthetics will find this a valuable book.
This book represents a new departure in science studies: an analysis of a scientific style of writing, situating it within the context of the contemporary style of literature. Its philosophical significance is that it provides a novel way of making sense of the notion of a scientific style. For the first time, the Hellenistic mathematical corpus - one of the most substantial extant for the period - is placed centre-stage in the discussion of Hellenistic culture as a whole. Professor Netz argues that Hellenistic mathematical writings adopt a narrative strategy based on surprise, a compositional form based on a mosaic of apparently unrelated elements, and a carnivalesque profusion of detail. He further investigates how such stylistic preferences derive from, and throw light on, the style of Hellenistic poetry. This important book will be welcomed by all scholars of Hellenistic civilization as well as historians of ancient science and Western mathematics. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Something about the style of the book is troubling. It is difficult to put my finger on it -- this could be merely a symptom of some discomfort with trying to parse the translations from the Hellenistic texts, which are often obscure, to say the least. Netz does not have a lot of space to consistently clarify what these texts are driving at and so, while his arguments about the unique stylistics of Hellenistic mathematics are not in themselves difficult, it IS sometimes difficult to connect them to the translated slabs of words we see here.
This is a worthwhile book if the reader is interested in the history of mathematics or in genre-crossing efforts. Not by any means an easy romp, but I did not expect one. ( )