Convexity in Greek Antiquity

Athanase Papadopoulos ()
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Athanase Papadopoulos: Université de Strasbourg and CNRS

Chapter Chapter 4 in Geometry in History, 2019, pp 139-152 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We consider several appearances of the notion of convexity in Greek antiquity, more specifically in mathematics and optics, in the writings of Aristotle, and in art.

Keywords: 01-02; 01A20; 34-02; 34-03; 54-03; 92B99 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_4

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