Sometimes translated as such because geometry was the only form of
higher mathematics that they had at the time.
Plato uses geometry (squaring the circle) to prove foreknowledge and
thus an earlier existence of the soul, in the Meno and arithmetic to
prove the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 02/12/2007, at 1:52 AM, Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>
> Always learning something new from you and this list.
>
> Found that there's only a story which says this was craved at the
> entrance:
>
> "Let none ignorant of geometry enter here."
>
> Regards,
>
> Fernando.
>
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>>
>> 'Let no one enter here who is ignorant of mathematics'
>> (Carved over the entrance to Plato's Academe - I think the first
>> university).
>>
>>
>
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