Plato on Geometry and the Geometers

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_1zbMath1471.01007OpenAlexW2980554387MaRDI QIDQ5129765

S. Negrepontis

Publication date: 23 October 2020

Published in: Geometry in History (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_1

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionsdialecticsperiodic anthyphairesisPlato's dialogues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of geometry (51-03) History of functions of a complex variable (30-03) History of general topology (54-03)

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Cites Work

• Plato: Parmenides 149a7-c3. A proof by complete induction?
• Drowning by multiples. Remarks on the fifth book of Euclid's elements, with special emphasis on prop. 8.
• The Anthyphairetic Revolutions of the Platonic Ideas
• ‘Mathematical Platonism’ Versus Gathering the Dead: What Socrates teaches Glaucon†
• A Mathematician Reads Plutarch: Plato's Criticism of Geometers of His Time
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