The Intellectual Role of Mathematics Since Renaissance and Scientific Revolution

FAIN: RO-*1138-77

Rice University (Houston, TX 77005-1827)
Salomon Bochner (Project Director: February 1977 to October 1990)

To study the impact of the Renaissance on the innermost structure of mathematics. Mathematics began to absorb into its texture basic conceptions (e.g., space, infinity, continuity which had been alien to Greek mathematics because they had originated and. developed, extramathematically, in natural philosophy, cosmology, ontology, and theology.