WHAT MAKES A PYTHAGOREAN PYTHAGOREAN?
The present paper characterizes the Pythagoreans as those thinkers that maintain that the lógos of the universe is revealed by a mathematical theory of proportion. Part of what is thereby revealed, according to the Pythagoreans, is the transmigration of the soul and the need to organize the mesocos...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de História da Matemáticas (SBHMat)
2020-10-01
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Series: | Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática |
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Online Access: | https://www.rbhm.org.br/index.php/RBHM/article/view/142 |