It’s a World Made of Triangles: Plato’s Timaeus 53B–55C

DOI10.1515/AGPH-2015-0006MaRDI QIDQ5114739zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ernesto Paparazzo

Publication date 25 June 2020

Published in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2015-0006

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of geometry (51-03)

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