Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras are hailed as intellectual giants and great founders of scientific thought, and it would be difficult to deny them this lofty description. In the 500s BC, Pythagoras ...

Famous Greek philosopher Plato was a secret follower of Pythagoras and shared his belief that the secrets to universe lie in numbers and maths. Famous Greek philosopher Plato was a secret follower of ...

This paper concerns three chief aspects of Xenocrates’ exegetical activity as head of the Platonic Academy, his interpretation of certain key passages of Plato, his appropriation of Pythagoras and the ...

Philosopher Bertrand Russell believed that the way we understand our world fundamentally shapes the way that we live our lives. Thus, an anarchist lives a very different sort of life than, say, an ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Some dates concerning Pythagoras and the Pythagorean society -- 3. The survival of Pythagoreanism after the fourth century B.C -- 4. The testimony of coins with regard to early ...

A former New York City nightclub owner and drug abuser, Kardaras is a psychology professor who turned his life around through immersion in ancient Greek philosophy. He introduces readers to some key ...

The inference has been drawn from “secret messages” uncovered from Plato’s ancient writings by a British academic at Manchester University, which have been debated for 2,000 years by the greatest ...

I want to continue here with my series of reflections on the links between mathematics and other aspects of our culture. We have spoken, in the past, of the connections between mathematics and ...

Pythagoras held that there are three sorts of men, just as there are three classes of strangers who go to the Olympic games. There are the lovers of gain who come to buy and sell, the lovers of honour ...