ES.2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics, Fall 2009
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Perlman, Lee
Alternative Title
Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics
Date Issued
December 2009
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.
Subjects
mathematics
geometry
history
philosophy
Greek philosophy
Plato
Euclid
Aristotle
Rene Descartes
Nicomachus
Francis Bacon
number
irrational number
ratio
ethics
logos
logic
ancient knowing
modern knowing
Greek conception of number
idea of number
courage
justice
pursuit of truth
truth as a surd
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MIT Experimental Study Group
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