A History of Folding in Mathematics Mathematizing the Margins
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass – for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is the cube root of 2 with these instruments – the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 th...
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| Language: | English |
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Birkhäuser
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
| Series: | Science Networks. Historical Studies
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- From the 16th Century Onwards: Folding Polyhedra. New Epistemological Horizons?
- Prolog to the 19th Century: Accepting Folding as a Method of Inference
- The 19th Century – What Can and Cannot be (Re)presented: On Models and Kindergartens
- Towards the Axiomatization, Operationalization and Algebraization of the Fold
- The Axiomatization(s) of the Fold
- Appendix I: Margherita Beloch Piazzolla: “Alcune applicazioni del metodo del ripiegamento della carta di Sundara Row”
- Appendix II: Deleuze, Leibniz and the Unmathematical Fold
- Bibliography
- List of Figures