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Only one name in European history unites the realms of religion, mathematics, and philosophy, and that name is Pythagoras. Yet it is this very achievement that so torments posterity when assessing his legacy. Centuries of speculative accretions, hagiographic mythologizing, and the dubious testimonia of ancient authors have so obscured his original doctrines that the exasperated scholar must, at last, accept that fact and legend are in him inseparably woven.
The elusive character of Pythagoras is only one part of the problem. There exists a vast corpus of anonymous Pythagorean and Neo-Pythagorean literature, which bears all the hallmarks of religious scripture. More Pythagorean texts have come down to us than all the rest of the pre-Socratic philosophical writings combined. The nature of the written corpus itself presents unique challenges: the school was simultaneously a political movement (Pythagoreans governed many of the cities of southern Italy, or Magna Graecia), a religious sect, and an educational institution. Pythagorean doctrines seeped into the foundations of so many classical philosophers that it is difficult to separate their ideas from his. Platonism and Neoplatonism, in particular, owe him a profound debt
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Incommensurable. It is a strange word. I wondered, why did Kuhn choose it? What was the attraction? [27]
Here’s one clue. At the very end of “The Road Since Structure,” a compendium of essays on Kuhn’s work, there is an interview with three Greek philosophers of science, Aristides Baltas, Kostas Gavroglu and Vassiliki Kindi. Kuhn provides a brief account of the historical origins of his idea. Here is the relevant segment of the interview.
T. KUHN: Look, “incommensurability” is easy.
V. KINDI: You mean in mathematics?
T. KUHN: …When I was a bright high school mathematician and beginning to learn Calculus, somebody gave me—or maybe I asked for it because I’d heard about it—there was sort of a big two-volume Calculus book by, I can’t remember whom. And then I never really read it. I read the early parts of it. And early on it gives the proof of the irrationality of the square root of 2. And I thought it was beautiful. That was terribly exciting, and I learned what incommensurability was then and there. So, it was all ready for me, I mean, it was a metaphor but it got at nicely
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The Story care for Maths
2008 Brits TV additional room or programme
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