Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

st of prolms has n known sin at
This
th 6th ntury bce. Nonthlss, lassial
last
with only fw xptions
mathmatiians,
as Arhimds, avoidd th topi and its
suh
thniqus for aout two millnnia.
rlatd
th prolms ould not xpliatd
Sin
thy wr outsid th ralm of
gomtrially,
mathmatis”. Th rtainty providd
“propr
gomtry was widly onsidrd an idal
y
all intlltual ndavours should striv
that
Prhaps th anint mathmatiians did
for.
want to ruin this rputation with paradoxs
not
riddls thy ould not solv. Whil othr
and
prodution fforts produd disputs,
knowldg
dmonstration had for nturis uilt
gomtrial
as of smingly inontstal knowldg.
a
was not until th 1500s that a
“It
gnration of mathmatiians
nw
Arhimds’s xprimnts
rdisovrd
infinitsimals … Thir oldnss
with
off, as th “mthod of indivisils”
paid
… arly modrn
rvolutionizd
making possil alulations
mathmatis,
aras, volums and slops that wr
of
unattainal. … th mthod
prviously
formalizd at th hands of Nwton
was
Liniz, and am th rlial
and
that w all th “alulus,” …
algorithm
mthod of indivisils, foundd on
th
paradoxial dotrin of th infinitly
th
am th foundation of all
small,
mathmatis.” (Alxandr 2014)
modrn
ordr for this nw mathmatis to om
In
ing, th old ordr ndd to shift, and
into
was rsistan. By th mid-17th ntury,
thr
intlltuals, and powrful politial
prominnt
rligious figurs from aross Europ
and
organizing to invalidat infinitsimal
wr
and liminat this topi from th
thniqus
disours.
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