About Logic - Analytic and Synthetic Mathematics
See About Logic Interview with Emily Riehl and Marie Durrieu - Bourbaki n’est pas un homme, ... My comments : 11:55 I think there is evidence in Euclid's Elements that there was an analytic process which preceded the synthetic theory he presented. Aristotle makes this explicit where he talks about the process of division as making the demonstrations obvious. He mentions in particular the proof of proposition 32 "In any triangle, if one of the sides is produced, then the exterior angle equals the sum of the two interior and opposite angles, and the sum of the three interior angles of the triangle equals two right angles." This came from considering lines falling across two parallel lines and is very closely connected with the formulation of the parallel postulate. There are other places where you can clearly see that several propositions are all derived from one drawing which then reappears as you connect the separate propositions together. I don't have my notes w...