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pappus

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pappus
[pap′əs]
Etymology: Gk, pappos, down
the first growth of beard, characterized by downy hairs.


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The biography of David Hilbert discusses a debate concerning whether it was an intellectual faux pas to advocate advancing the 2000 year old Theorem of Pappus to the status of an Axiom This issue is notable from a number of perspectives, one being his 1920 proposal establishing the Hilbert Program of formulating mathematics and/or geometry on a more solid and complete logical foundation conforming to inclusively greater ?
The social element consists, for example, in Descartes's having encountered the problem of Pappus in 1631 by way of Jacobus Golius, a professor at Leiden where Descartes had enrolled in 1630.
His narrative is broadly chronological, beginning with the rediscovery of classical sources including Archimedes and Pappus by dal Monte, Stevin, Benedetti, the young Galileo, and others and continuing through discussion of the work of Galileo and his disciples and the rise of mechanical philosophy and Descartes.
 
 
 
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