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Author Huffman, Carl A.

Title Archytas of Tarentum : Pythagorean, philosopher, and mathematician king / Carl A. Huffman
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; chapter i Life, writings and reception; chapter ii The philosophy of Archytas; chapter iii The authenticity question; chapter i Fragment 1; chapter ii Fragment 2; chapter iii Fragment 3; chapter iv Fragment 4; chapter i Testimonia for Archytas' life, writings and reception; chapter ii Moral philosophy and character; chapter iii Geometry: The duplication of the cube; chapter iv Music; chapter v Metaphysics; chapter vi Physics; chapter vii Miscellaneous testimonia; Appendix 1 Spurious writings and testimonia
Summary In fourth-century Greece Archytas of Tarentum solved a famous mathematical puzzle, saved Plato from the tyrant of Syracuse and led a powerful Greek city state. This book presents a radically new interpretation of his significance for fourth-century Greek thought and provides a full commentary on all the fragments and testimonia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Archytas, of Tarentum.
SUBJECT Archytas, (of Tarentum.) cct
Archytas, of Tarentum fast
Archytas Tarentinus. swd
Subject Mathematics, Ancient.
Pythagorean theorem.
Mathematicians -- Greece -- Biography
Philosophy, Ancient.
Scientists -- Greece -- Biography
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
Scientists
Pythagorean theorem
Philosophy, Ancient
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathematicians
Philosophie
Mathematik
Didactisch proza.
Grieks.
Filosofie.
Wiskunde.
Greece
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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