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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • SP.2H3 (Fall 2006) 
  • Course Title:
  • Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Special Programs 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Dr. Lee Perlman 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • SP.2H3 / ESG.SP2H3 Ancient Philosophy and Mathematics



    Fall 2006




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive list of readings and assignments.


    Course Description


    Western philosophy and theoretical mathematics were born together, and the cross-fertilization of ideas in the two disciplines was continuously acknowledged throughout antiquity. In this course, we read works of ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics, and investigate the way in which ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality and irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquiry.
     

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