Visual reasoning in Euclid's geometry : an epistemology of diagrams
It is widely held that the role of diagrams in mathematical arguments is merely heuristic, or involves a dubious appeal to a postulated faculty of “intuition”. To many these have seemed to exhaust the available alternatives, and worries about the status of intuition have in turn motivated the dismis...
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University College London (University of London)
2003
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407521 |