The certainty of mathematics in the Western philosophical and scientific thought of the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century

• Grant number: 11/23482-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2012
• End date: March 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Logic
• Principal Investigator: Fábio Maia Bertato
• Grantee: Fábio Maia Bertato
• Host Institution: Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência (CLE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research in the area of Epistemology and History of Science (Mathematics and Logic) focuses on the epistemological status of Mathematics, considered by the authors of the fifteenth century, its role in the "Scientific Revolution" and, in particular on the changes occured in the Practice and in the Philosophy of Mathematics in the period. It is also considered contributions to the understanding of the concept of space from the advent of Linear Perspective in the environment of the Italian artists and controversial disputes about the resolutions of algebraic equations and their relevance to algebrization of the Mathematics. (AU)