Abstract
Two ways of talking about mathematics, the ideal agents of Philip Kitcher and Brian Rotman, and David Wells’s analogy to abstract games like chess and go, are brought together and put to the test on the Hellenistic mathematical text Spherics by Theodosios. The subject of agents or players, as in a game or play, is discussed.
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Thomas, R. (2014). Acts of geometrical construction in the spherics of theodosios. In From Alexandria, Through Baghdad: Surveys and Studies in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Mathematical Sciences in Honor of J.L. Berggren (pp. 227–237). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36736-6_11
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