Friday, September 6, 2024

The Mathematics of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-Platos-Academy-New-Reconstruction/dp/0198539126 

The author speculates about the use of Euclid's algorithm as a way to represent rational numbers and even real numbers.

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