The Philosophical Sense of Theaetetus' Mathematics

DOI10.1086/352111zbMath0404.01001OpenAlexW1963524158MaRDI QIDQ4189234

Myles Burnyeat

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Isis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/352111

zbMATH Keywords

Philosophical Sense of Theaetetus' MathematicsPlato's Theaetetos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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