Plato on geometry and the geometers

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_1zbMATH Open1471.01007OpenAlexW2980554387MaRDI QIDQ5129765FDOQ5129765

Authors: S. Negrepontis 

Publication date: 23 October 2020

Published in: Geometry in History (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3_1

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zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionsdialecticsperiodic anthyphairesisPlato's dialogues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of geometry (51-03) History of general topology (54-03) History of functions of a complex variable (30-03)

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