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Language: en
Pages: 490
Authors: D. H. Fowler
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This is an updated edition of a groundbreaking examination of early Greek mathematics. The author has revised parts of the text, updated the bibliography, and a
The Mathematics of Plato's Academy
Language: en
Pages: 442
Authors: D. H. Fowler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This book presents a reinterpretation of early Greek mathematics, one of the most tantalizing intellectual subjects of the last 2,000 years. The first part offe
Plato's Academy
Language: en
Pages: 447
Authors: Paul Kalligas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also incl
The Heirs of Plato
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: John Dillon
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-30 - Publisher: Clarendon Press

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The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first se
The Theology of Arithmetic
Language: en
Pages: 140
Authors: Iamblichus
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

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Attributed to Iamblichus (4th cent. AD), The Theology of Arithmetic is about the mystical, mathmatical and cosmological symbolism of the first ten numbers. Its