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The obstacles to the merging of arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and analysis, discussed in the previous chapter, were primarily of conceptual nature. I now turn to a question on a different level that also played a role in the fusion process, namely whether it was legitimate to use numbers in geometry.
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Bos, H.J.M. (2001). Using numbers in geometry — Regiomontanus and Stevin. In: Redefining Geometrical Exactness. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0087-8_7
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