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Tag Archives: Aristotle
A surprise
One of my birthday presents this year was a beautiful book by Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The author, who is librarian at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (a library to which he was once refused admission), and in … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged Aristotle, Arthur Koestler, Christopher de Hamel, Copernicus, Herakleides, Plato, Tycho de Brahe
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The Infinite Quest
In late May, I was in Hay-on-Wye at the How the Light Gets In festival. I talked about humanity’s engagement with infinity over the last few millennia, from Malunkyaputta’s questions to the Buddha and Aristotle’s disavowal of a completed infinity … Continue reading
Posted in events, exposition, history
Tagged Aristotle, Cantor, Galileo, Hay-on-Wye, Hilbert, How the light gets in, infinity, Institute for Arts and Ideas, Malunkyaputta
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Kilvington’s Sophismata
The last chapter of Mathematical Structures was about how to spot false proofs. Of course, I am not the first to do this. A curious chain (I may tell about this later) led me to The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington. … Continue reading
Posted in books, history
Tagged Aristotle, Merton mathematicians, Richard Kilvinton, sophismata, Thomas Aquinas
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