The Theology of Arithmetic
Title | The Theology of Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Iamblichus |
Publisher | Red Wheel/Weiser |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780933999725 |
Attributed to Iamblichus (4th cent. AD), The Theology of Arithmetic is about the mystical, mathmatical and cosmological symbolism of the first ten numbers. Its is the longest work on number symbolism to survive from the ancient world, and Robin Waterfield's careful translation contains helpful footnotes, an extensive glossary, bibliography, and foreword by Keith Critchlow. Never before translated from ancient Greek, this important sourcework is indispensable for anyone intereted in Pythagorean though, Neoplatonism, or the symbolism of Numbers.
The Theology of Arithmetic
Title | The Theology of Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Iamblichus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN |
The Theology of Arithmetic
Title | The Theology of Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Kalvesmaki |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Arithmetic |
ISBN | 9780674073302 |
In the second century, some Gnostic Christians used numerical structures to describe God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. The Theology of Arithmetic explores the rich variety of number symbolism used by gnosticizing groups and their orthodox critics, and shows how earlier neo-Pythagorean and Platonist thought influenced this theology.
The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans
Title | The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Taylor |
Publisher | Health Research Books |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2006-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780787314064 |
Arithmetic
Title | Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Lockhart |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2019-07-15 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 067423751X |
Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems—Western and non-Western—and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.
Philosophy of Arithmetic
Title | Philosophy of Arithmetic PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Husserl |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9401000603 |
This volume is a window on a period of rich and illuminating philosophical activity that has been rendered generally inaccessible by the supposed "revolution" attributed to "Analytic Philosophy" so-called. Careful exposition and critique is given to every serious alternative account of number and number relations available at the time.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Title | Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Irene Caiazzo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2021-11-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004499466 |
For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought.