• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.79-91
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• 2024

We discuss the thinking ways of the Eastern world and the Western world. In the West, due to the influence of the geometry, deductive logic was incorporated into language, allowing for the development of logic. In contrast, the East relies on intuition, conjecture, and insight as method of thinking. However, these methods of thinking in the East and the West each exhibit their own characteristics. The East saw the flourishing of humanities culture, including philosophy and religion, while the West saw the flourishing of mathematical, scientific, and technological civilizations based on logic.