Pythagoras to Plato: The Ancient Greek Revolution in Human Thought

[@AlekseiTepljakov]

Frenkel's talk was fantastic. It seems that it is eventually inevitable that we find ourselves knocking on the door of the unknowable and by the same token asking for infinite knowledge. From my humble point of view, that's the whole idea of the Universe. The experience, mathematics, or engineering, or literature, or music, or anything, any kind of activity where imagination is essential, is already drawing from this. Knowing this, even without direct experience of the infinite, is where the best of us thrive.

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

Thank you. Watching from Alaska.

[@TCME8]

The interesting thing is that you can easily represent strings with square roots. As he mentioned, the square root of two is just the diagonal of a square. You can represent them visually and with links quite easily just not as a ratio

[@MoiLiberty]

1:03:24 Intuitively, I've known we are in a time closer to the Homeric time than any post-Socratic time.

[@nixl3518]

Something is lost in the translation of the first sentence of the slide at 35:50. One cannot figure out what that sentence means and the explanation below does little to help.

[@annadesilva6752]

Language means so much. I would have never thought English would be the language we all need to know.

[@annadesilva6752]

He is a mathematician speaking his own language - but talking about at that point is dichotomy. How in western thinking when we say we know something we are limiting things. He is referencing Einstein’s work on electromagnetism and gravity. The unified field theory.

[@nixl3518]

@@annadesilva6752 It is the lingua franca of our time. Not knowing English is extremely limiting as is evidenced unfortunately in this case. There is a failure to communicate here.

[@nixl3518]

​@@annadesilva6752 that is incorrect! He may be a mathematician but he is not speaking his own language because English is not his language as is clearly evidenced here. I am not concerned with Einstein's theories at this point; (35:50) just that what he is saying does not make any sense either orally or in written form. Take a moment and read what is written there and see if you can understand it without the assistance of an interpretation!

[@annadesilva6752]

@@nixl3518 I meant to say that mathematics is a language. I will take your advice.

[@fretnesbutke3233]

There's a fascinating, tantalizing mystery about Pythagoras,who often is considered the father of Western music. His ideas may have been infused with Eastern teaching, specifically Indian. Long before Alexander,the Achaemenid Persian Empire connected Greece to India,and established a cultural cross fertilization that lasted for centuries. This may be the source of his ideas of reincarnation,vegetarianism and of numbers being the ground of the universe. All 3 speakers were wonderful,by the way.

[@VayaconDios018]

25:55

[@ChildPerson]

Thank you all for the time travel!

[@boothvrstudio]

Really enjoyed the presentation. Look into it…Descartes stole the coordinate plane idea from Fermat. My university history of math professor told my class this detail in 1997.

[@kn9ioutom]

THE TRUTH IS WHAT YOU CAN MEASURE !!!

[@MoiLiberty]

1:09:00 Joshua Landy is a sophisticated sophist, an entertainer akin to a clown.

[@kn9ioutom]

DOUBT EVERYTHING BUT SEEK THE TRUTH !!!

[@21972012145525]

Haven’t watched it yet. Any reference to the Islamic civilization that preserved the Greeks work?

[@ELLAS1234]

to the third speaker, the translations you showed are not correct. first of all, you cannot translate from Greek to English. the meaning you will get will be 70% correct. Τhe ancient Greeks did not have numbers but used letters for this purpose, so every sentence and every word is a mathematical operation, a sentence with letters is an algorithm and an equation. Plato had written everything in code

[@gravity0529]

Assuming we know beauty and what it is not and if we agree; How do you know what it is known without the eyes to see it? for my eye of beauty could be not the same as yours. beauty could be anything that I say is beautiful. And maybe I’ll allow you see or maybe not. Only time will tell…. And if you do think you finally see beauty, would you be honest to me about this beauty because I’ll know for a fact if you see it for yourself.

[@paxdriver]

Love the Socratic yo mamma jokes lol

[@orlock5510]

Fantastic, holy fk

[@commonwealthclubworldaffairs]

Glad you like it!