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SP.2H3 / ESG.SP2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics, Fall 2006

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Alternative Title: Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics
Author: Perlman, Lee David
Date Issued: 2006-12
Abstract:
Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. In this course, we read works of ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, and investigate the way in which ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality and irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquiry.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55808
Other Identifiers: SP.2H3-Fall2006
Other Identifiers: SP.2H3
ESG.SP2H3
IMSCP-MD5-21bd21af01d0c0f5aa415c7721f45174
Keywords: mathematics, geometry, history, philosophy, Greek philosophy, Plato, Euclid, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, Nicomachus, Francis Bacon, 380101, Philosophy, 302201, Ancient Studies/Civilization

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