1. Pythagoras
In The Geometry, Descartes unites topics of Algebra and Geometry in a way that no other had done (no other had so specifically linked the two together). ... Although he never accomplished this, his work in geometry and algebra has had a significant impact on the study of mathematics. ...
The second step of the system was the Quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. Arithmetic was simple math such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; Geometry involved the study of math in three dimensions, which was related to music due to the fact that music encompassed the study of the relationship of these proportions to the physical world. ...
During the Hellenistic Period, science were the mathematicians, Alexandrian Euclid created the study of geometry. ... In geometry, he figured out that the sum of the sides of the triangle was equal was related to the angels of the triangles. ...
Basic arithmetic and geometry formed the basis of what the mathematical world had to offer at its very beginnings. ... As mentioned in the Stanford Encyclopedia, "Pythagoras is said to have transformed the philosophy of geometry into a form of liberal education, to have investigated its theorems in an immaterial and intellectual way and specifically to have discovered the study of irrational magnitudes and the construction of the five regular solids," (2). ...
Natural philosophy, being the precursor to modern day science, was greatly developed in ancient Greece. Like other ancient societies and cultures, the Greeks believed that the world around them was the result of divine intervention (The Ionian Philosophers, 3). Therefore, they based early Greek scie...
David Hume like many thinkers of British Empiricism believed that knowledge comes from sense perception. Unlike other thinkers of this time such as Locke and Berkely who believed that knowledge can go beyond sense perception Hume believed that knowledge is limited to sense experience. Immanuel Kant ...
"In his dialogue entitled the Meno, Plato illustrates how Socrates is able to show that even a young uneducated slave boy knows some truths of geometry not because somebody taught him that subject but because be naturally knows the relationship of various ideas to each other." (Stumpf 260) This quote illustrates how Socrates thought that the uneducated boy knew geometry. ...
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, the mathematician and German philosopher, was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Germany. He had a very keen interest in philosophy, theology, and Latin poetry. He also was much interested in mathematics including binary arithmetic, symbolic logic, and calculus. He wa...
Assess Nietzsche's View Of Truth In the first section of Beyond Good and Evil (BGE) it is clear that Nietzsche's view on truth is that there is no such thing as "T"ruth. This is because God - according to Nietzsche - is dead, and God was the soul guarantor of Truth. Without God, we now have to...
Romans Did and Greeks Thought Life's milestones have been passed through generations and to different cultures since the beginning of time. From the start, people have been able to put their minds together to come up with new and easier ways to do daily activities. These brilliant and deter...
., Theaetetus defined knowledge as "geometry, the craft of shoemaking, and carpentry." ... Plato used mathematics to explain that we base geometry around perfect angles, circle, and triangles, even though they do not exist. ...
Every culture on the planet has its legends concerning the creation of the world, and likewise all cultures have those who seek immortality. Indeed, the quest for knowledge and immortality is recorded as far back as the ancient Sumerian story of Gilgamesh. Even today we strive for answers about ou...
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle: collectively, these men are arguably the three most significant philosophers in the history of western philosophy. Their influence upon the subsequent development of western philosophy cannot be overstated. Plato was, as we know, both pupil of Socrates and teacher of ...
On David Hume and Rene Descartes "There are more things in heaven and Earth than dreamt of in your philosophy" (Shakespeare, 211). This quote from William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark presents quite an idea. It suggests that in our modern philosophy we have not even bega...
Religion is the practice of belief, in most cases identifying to the existence of a divine, transcendent being or beings. The proposals of Plato selected to be discussed will adhere to a general definition that religion is "a strong belief in a supernatural power that control human destiny".1 This w...
The "state of nature- of human beings was the focal point for many of the 1500th -1900th century philosophers. Many of these philosophers attempted to understand and describe humans in this original condition. One of the most intriguing aspects of man was the concept of human interaction as it per...
