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On an Unnoticed Geometrical Paradox in Plato's Timaeus' Cosmology
Salomon Ofman, Luc Brisson
In a previous article, we discussed a paradox in Timaeus' cosmology: that there is no void inside the universe, even though it is entirely filled with polyhedra-a mathematical impo…
Timaeus' Puzzle of the Innumerable Interstices in a Universe Without Void
Luc Brisson, Salomon Ofman
Some of the most challenging problems in Timaeus' cosmology arise from the geometry of a universe without any void. On the one hand, the universe is spherical in shape; on the othe…
Theodorus mathematical Lesson (Theaetetus, 147c7-d6) I What are Theodorus' drawings? II Theodorus' demonstrations of irrationality
Salomon Ofman
Both lectures focus on the first part of the so-called 'mathematical part' of Plato's Theaetetus. In this passage, the young Theaetetus briefly recounts the mathematical lesson giv…
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…