On the correctness of problem solving in ancient mathematical procedure texts
Abstract: It has been argued concerning Old Babylonian mathematical problems that the validity or correctness of the procedures adopted to solve them is self-evident. One “sees” that a procedure is correct without it being accompanied by any explicit argument for its correctness....
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Universidad de Valparaíso. Facultad de Humanidades .Instituto de Filosofía.
2020
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