Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 61, No. 5 (September 2007), pp. 457-518 (62 pages) In his writings about hypergeometric functions Gauss succeeded in moving beyond the restricted domain of ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle argued that our thoughts are based on internal representations of the external world, and he distinguished between sensation (the image impinging on the retina) ...