SOCRATES IN BABYLON

Socrates never visited Babylon. He probably did not even know that in the Old Babylonian period about 1,000 years before his birth Babylonian scribes produced texts that about 2,000 years after his death would be known, using a seemingly genuine Greek term, as Babylonian mathematics. The focus of th...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Damerow, Peter
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Recursos:Sociedade Brasileira de História da Matemática (SBHMat)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.www.rbhm.org.br:article/318
Acesso em linha:http://www.rbhm.org.br/index.php/RBHM/article/view/318
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:SOCRATES IN BABYLON
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Resumo:Socrates never visited Babylon. He probably did not even know that in the Old Babylonian period about 1,000 years before his birth Babylonian scribes produced texts that about 2,000 years after his death would be known, using a seemingly genuine Greek term, as Babylonian mathematics. The focus of this paper then is not the question of where Socrates traveled during his lifetime but rather whether it is feasible to assume that a Babylonian scribe argued about mathematics in the same way that Socrates as a spokesman of Plato did 1,000 years later.

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