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Sep. 1, 99 |
Introduction: ancient and modern valuation, Pythagorean Table of Opposites, Anaximander
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| 2. |
Sep. 8, 99 |
Parmenides, Truth
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| 3. |
Sep. 15, 99 |
Plato, Philebus
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| 4. |
Sep. 22, 99 |
Aristotle, Physics
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| 5. |
Sep. 29, 99 |
Pythagorean Geometry; Number Theory and Zeno's Paradoxes I
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| 6. |
Oct. 13, 99 |
Zeno's Paradoxes II, Eudoxus: Theory of Proportions, Method of exhaustion
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| 7. |
Oct. 20, 99 |
Kabbalah
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| 8. |
Oct. 27, 99 |
Aquinas, Summa Theologica; Cusanus, Vision of God
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| 9. |
Nov. 3, 99 |
Early Moderns (Cusanus, On Learned Ignorance, etc.), Bruno, On the Infinite Unvierse, etc., Spinoza, Letter on the Infinite
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| 10. |
Nov. 10, 99 |
Modern Math I (Galilieo, Leibniz, Newton, Berkeley)
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| 11. |
Nov. 17, 99 |
Modern Math II (Cauchy, Weierstrauss)
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| 12. |
Dec. 1, 99 |
Modern Math III (Hilbert, Bouwer)
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Extra class |
Cantor, Transfinite Numbers
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| 13. |
Dec. 8. |
Poetic views (Bruno, Leopardi, Blake, Wordsworth, Borges); passages from Homer, Over-view
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