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This is a midterm paper.
The instructions are:

“Below is a list of historical claims pertaining to Greek and Islamic mathematics. Choose one argument and write an essay in it
Arguments that support the claim will be presented alongside other arguments that deny it. Next to each claim is a list of sources
To read (with a link to the text), where you can find the reasons required for writing the essay.
Also in reading the relevant chapter from the text of Victor Katz, in order to understand the broader context of the subject in which
Deals with the claim. Also attached is a link to David Joyce’s website which lists all the theorems of Euclid’s elements,
Some of which are relevant to some of the questions. See below for links to the book and website.
The essay must be short, clear and concise, and at the same time fully address the question as it is presented.
The purpose of the task
Is to examine your degree of understanding of the historical reasons relevant to the question, and for that you must decide what
Will be considered a historical argument relevant to the question. Everything that is irrelevant you must leave out. Biographical details, etc.
Are irrelevant.
Length of work: between 3000 and 4000 words, plus bibliography. No more than that! Be sure to specify the details
The bibliography on which you relied.

I chose the following argument:
“From looking at theorems in the arithmetic books of Euclid’s elements (for example: VII.30 or
IX.20; Or IX.36) it can be concluded that Euclid knew and proved the fundamental theorem of
Arithmetic.”
Sources:
http://deti-bilingual.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3rd-Edition-Victor-J.-Katz-A-History-of-Mathematics-Pearson-2008.pdf
Chapter 3 – Euclid
https://archive.org/details/euclid_heath_2nd_ed/2_euclid_heath_2nd_ed
Vol. 2: 330-333; 412-426
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/aboutText.html
David Joyce’s site
!!!AND THE THREE ATTACHED FILES ARE ALSO SOURCES!!!

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