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Eduard Study and the exact reasoning in geometry. (Eduard Study und das exakte Schließen in der Geometrie.) (German) Zbl 1229.01119

Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (ed.), “Es gibt für Könige keinen besonderen Weg zur Geometrie”. Festschrift für Karin Reich. Augsburg: ERV Dr. Erwin Rauner Verlag (ISBN 978-3-936905-23-6/pbk). Algorismus 60, 59-68 (2007).
The author studies the position of the German geometer Eduard Study (1862-1930) with respect to exactness in geometry. It was at the time not unusual to discuss merely the ‘general case’ without paying attention to exceptions. The author discusses among other examples Study’s very critical opinion of Felix Klein’s “Lectures on Higher Geometry”
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1123.01002].

MSC:

01A55 History of mathematics in the 19th century
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
51-03 History of geometry

Biographic References:

Study, Eduard
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