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

DOI10.1515/AGPH-2015-0006zbMATH Open1435.01008OpenAlexW2566907406MaRDI QIDQ5114739FDOQ5114739

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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