Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:35:58 +0100
To: uunet!athena-discuss%info.harpercollins.com@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Egyptian Science, the Greeks and Mathematical PROOF


 
Alfonso Georeno wrote:
> >Fourth as to Plato:
> >
> >     Plato, in the Phaedrus, has Socrates say that he
> >     learned that the god Thoth was the inventor of
> >     arithmetic, calculus, geometry, and astronomy
> >     (Phaedrus, 274 C)...
> 
> Plato and the calculus? Surely that's a typo or a mistranslation. I don't

I have quoted Diop correctly.  As to whether *his* reference to
Phaedrus is correct I shall have to let someone else answer.
Clearly though, Plato cannot have Socrates making anachronistic
reference to the calculus of Leibniz and Newton.

> AG

Regards,

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