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

Perlman, Lee David

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Perlman, Lee David

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Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics

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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.

Date issued

2006-12

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55808

Department

MIT Experimental Study Group

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SP.2H3-Fall2006

local: SP.2H3

local: ESG.SP2H3

local: IMSCP-MD5-21bd21af01d0c0f5aa415c7721f45174

Keywords

mathematics, geometry, history, philosophy, Greek philosophy, Plato, Euclid, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, Nicomachus, Francis Bacon

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