Isaac Barrow and the Bounds of Geometry

Authors

Marco Panza, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

I discuss two examples advanced by Barrow in his Lectiones Mathematicæ in order to argue for the (foundational) primacy of geometry over arithmetic.

Comments

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of a chapter accepted for publication in Patricia Radelet-de Grave (Ed.), Liber amicorum Jean Dhombres. This version may not exactly replicate the final published version.

Recommended Citation

Marco Panza. « Isaac Barrow and the Bounds of Geometry », in P. Radelet De-Grave, Liber Amicorum Jean Dhombres, Brepols, Turnhout (Be), 2008, pp. 365-411.

Copyright

Brepols