5 papers
Barry Mazur against Papps -- 15 centuries of error on a Euclid's proposition
Salomon Ofman
Barry Mazur published an article some year ago, where he showed, among other things, that the result in the so-called mathematical passage of Plato s Theatetus and Euclid s proposi…
Truth and Knowledge: the Incorrect Definition of `Powers' by Theaetetus-A New Interpretation of Theaetetus (147d7-148b2)
Luc Brisson, Salomon Ofman
In a first article (referred here as B-O), we studied the first part of the so-called 'mathematical part' of Plato's Theaetetus, i.e. Theodorus' lesson. In the present one, we cons…
Theodorus' lesson in Plato's Theaetetus (147d1-d6) Revisited-A New Perspective
Luc Brisson, Salomon Ofman
This article is the first part of a study of the so-called 'mathematical part' of Plato's Theaetetus (147d-148b). The subject of this 'mathematical part' is the irrationality, one…
The kh{ô}ra and the two-triangle universe of Plato's Timaeus
Luc Brisson, Salomon Ofman
The main purpose of this article is to try to understand the connection between the physical universe and the mathematical principles that underlies the cosmological account of the…
Powers and division in the 'mathematical part' of Plato's Theaetetus
Luc Brisson, Salomon Ofman
In two articles ([Brisson-Ofman1, 2]), we have analyzed the so-called 'mathematical passage' of Plato's Theaetetus, the first dialogue of a trilogy including the Sophist and the St…