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Author(s): Benno Artmann
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006), 231-234.
Posted: March 9, 2006
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[Art01]: B. Artmann, Euclid--The Creation of Mathematics. Springer, New York, second ed., 2001. (Contains more specific information about the material in this note. The material on the icosahedron is not in the first ed., 1999.) MR 1695164 (2000d:01006)
[Art05]: B. Artmann, Antike Darstellungen des Ikosaeders. Mitt. DMV 13 (2005), 45-50. (Here Theaetetus' drawing is analysed in detail.) MR 2146260
[Heath]: T. L. Heath, The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. Cambridge UP, 1908 (and later reprints). MR 0075873 (17:814b)
[Mueller]: I. Mueller, On the notion of a mathematical starting point in Plato, Aristotle, and Euclid. In: A. C. Bowen, ed.: Science and philsophy in classical Greece. New York: Garland, 1991, pp. 59-97. MR 1157400
[Plato]: Plato: The collected dialogues. E. Hamilton and H. Cairns, eds., Bollingen series LXXI, Princeton Univ. Press, 1989.

Benno Artmann
Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Bunsenstr. 3-5, D-37073 Goettingen, Germany
Email: artmann@uni-math.gwdg.de

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01111-6
PII: S 0273-0979(06)01111-6
Received by editor(s): November 22, 2005
Posted: March 9, 2006
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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