Scott Milross Buchanan (1895–1968)
Autor de The Portable Plato
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Scott Milross Buchanan
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1895-03-17
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1968-03-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Annapolis, Maryland, USA
- Educación
- Amherst College
Oxford University (Balliol College)
Harvard University (PhD) - Ocupaciones
- professor
- Organizaciones
- St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
Miembros
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 121
- Popularidad
- #164,307
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 17
which is sad, bc this is such a potent topic which so few ppl have written seriously abt (heidegger comes to mind, but he didnt have much of a grasp of mathematical form). and he approaches the topic from a great angle, incorporating science studies--a view for how poetic images have influenced the role of mathematics in science--and an elegantly simple treatment of some heady metaphysical philosophy. but its so, so horribly dated, and perhaps more sadly it lacks style
even in 1929 if u write a book of mathematics, u generally write w a certain formalistic structure; if u write a book of poetry, u generally write w a certain freewheeling or imaginative grace; this has neither, essentially possessing the worst of both worlds in terms of the writing and presentation… (más)