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1 | Introduction: Purpose and plan of the inquiry | 3 |
2 | The opposition of logistic and arithmetic in the Neoplatonists | 10 |
3 | Logistic and arithmetic in Plato | 17 |
4 | The role of the theory of proportions in Nicomachus, Theon, and Domninus | 26 |
5 | Theoretical logistic and the problem of fractions | 37 |
6 | The concept of arithmos | 46 |
7 | The ontological conception of the arithmoi in Plato | 61 |
A | The science of the Pythagoreans | 63 |
B | Mathematics in Plato - logistike and dianoia | 69 |
C | The arithmos eidetikos | 79 |
8 | The Aristotelian critique and the possibility of a theoretical logistic | 100 |
9 | On the difference between ancient and modern conceptualization | 117 |
10 | The Arithmetic of Diophantus as theoretical logistic. The concept of eidos in Diophantus | 126 |
11 | The formalism of Vieta and the transformation of the arithmos concept | 150 |
A | The life of Vieta and the general characteristics of his work | 150 |
B | Vieta's point of departure: the concept of synthetic apodeixis in Pappus and in Diophantus | 151 |
C | The reinterpretation of the Diophantine procedure by Vieta | 161 |
1 | The procedure for solutions "in the indeterminate form" as an analogue to geometric analysis | 161 |
2 | The generalization of the eidos concept and its transformation into the "symbolic" concept of the species | 163 |
3 | The reinterpretation of the katholou pragmateia as Mathesis Universalis in the sense of ars analytice | 178 |
12 | The concept of "number." | 186 |
A | In Stevin | 186 |
B | In Descartes | 197 |
C | In Wallis | 211 |
Part I, Notes 1-125 | 227 | |
Part II, Notes 126-348 | 242 | |
Appendix. Introduction to the Analytical Art | ||
Appendix. Letter to Princess Melusine | 315 | |
Appendix I. On the definition and division of analysis and those things which are of use to zetetics | 320 | |
Appendix II. On the stipulations governing equations and proportions | 322 | |
Appendix III. Concerning the law of homogeneity and the degrees and genera of the magnitudes that are compared | 324 | |
Appendix IV. On the precepts of the reckoning by species | 328 | |
Appendix V. Concerning the laws of zetetics | 339 | |
Appendix. VI. Concerning the investigation of theorems by means of the poristic art | 345 | |
Appendix VII. Concerning the function of the rhetic art | 346 | |
Appendix VIII. The symbolism in equations and the epilogue to the art | 347 | |
Index of names | 355 | |
Index of topics | 359 |
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