Wikipedia gives the acceptance of non-Euclidean geometry as a “classical case” of a paradigm shift. I suspect that there were several other paradigm shifts involved from Euclid’s math to our math: for instance, coordinate geometry, or the use of number theory applied to abstract quantities as opposed to lengths of line segments.
Wikipedia gives the acceptance of non-Euclidean geometry as a “classical case” of a paradigm shift. I suspect that there were several other paradigm shifts involved from Euclid’s math to our math: for instance, coordinate geometry, or the use of number theory applied to abstract quantities as opposed to lengths of line segments.