HoP 086 - Serafina Cuomo on Ancient Mathematics

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

How did the mathematics of figures like Euclid and Archimides relate to ancient philosophy? Peter finds out in an interview with Serafina Cuomo

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Do you?
0:02.0	Do you do.
0:04.0	Do you do do you
0:05.0	do do you
0:06.0	do do
0:07.0	do you do do you do
0:10.0	do you do you Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast brought to you
0:19.2	with the support of King's College London and the Lever Hume Trust, online at
0:23.5	W.W. History of Philosophy.net.
0:27.1	Today's episode will be an interview about ancient mathematics
0:30.2	with Sarafina Cuomo, who is a reader in Roman history at Birkbeck College in London.
0:35.4	Hi Serafina.
0:36.1	Hello, Peter.
0:37.1	Thanks for coming on.
0:38.1	I'd like to start by asking you a very basic question.
0:42.0	What did the ancients understand by mathematics?
0:44.4	Obviously it would have included arithmetic and geometry both of which are words that come from Greek in fact.
0:50.6	What else would it have included?
0:53.0	It would have included a lot of other things that we don't necessarily consider to be
0:58.9	mathematics today. Like everything it depended on whom you asked. For some people
1:06.0	mathematics could really be taken to concern knowledge in general. So someone who was a mathematic course was someone who was
1:17.2	interested in learning about pretty much everything. But more specifically, alongside arithmetic and geometry which you would expect, I think that many
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Peter Adamson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Peter Adamson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.