Mathematical symbology possesses the property of infinite extension (e.g., the natural numbers). Cantor’s diagonal slash ...

Starting May 17, we embark on an exciting journey—exploring one great thinker each day. From politics to literature, from ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is two dozen steps closer to launching Plato, a spacecraft that will search for terrestrial planets outside of our solar system, after the installation of 24 of its ...

His pupil Plato, however, found that practical knowledge led to the abstractions of metaphysics and political theory. Carol Atack’s “Plato: A Civic Life” traces Plato’s philosophy back to ...

The PLATO space mission will use 26 cameras to search for Earth-like planets around 200,000 stars in the Milky Way, starting in late 2026. DLR is leading the PLATO payload consortium and supplying ...

Bloomington-based Plato Learning, the education-software firm that was acquired in 2010, will announce Thursday that it's changing its name to reflect newfound growth and broader online-learning ...

This peculiar shape has fascinated ancient philosophy, art, mathematics, and applied sciences. This paper will review triangles from different points of view, focusing on the equilateral shape and its ...

Price gouging is a practice that extends all the way back to Antiquity. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato prohibited craftsmen from “setting a greater price” than the actual value of a good ...

Plato’s father was Ariston ... in addition to governance and the art of war, would be an expert in mathematics, natural sciences, music theory, and, above all, dialectic. For Socrates, dialectic is ...

The school was dedicated to the study of knowledge, mathematics, medicine, rhetoric, and astronomy. The Platonic Academy had three notable periods. The first of these periods was the ancient academy, ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...