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Hello Is this list working - old messages seem to be missing. bill...
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Hi Bill: Just responding to your Klein test: gottit. --Ron...
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got it. Lee Perlman...
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High, I just found this list searching Jacob Klein on the internet. I am intersted in doing graduate studies on dialogue, synthetic and analytic inquiry, and...
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Hi Brandon: This group has been dormant for some time. It's not that we're not interested in Klein or Greek mathematics in general; we've just gone off to...
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Mainly, Klein does the kind of writing I have the most respect for, interpretive reading but respectful of the text and what it offers, as opposed to what...
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New member, my dover paperback copy of klein's book just arrived. Reading the backcover notes i was struck by the words, "...klein investigates the revival and...
picard
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Jul 25, 2005
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Newbie here, just finished a first reading of klein's introduction to his book. By 'weight', my first impression is, klein's work takes thought down to thee...
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Jul 25, 2005
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Welcome This list has been somewhat empty = ok no messages for quite a while. Is there any life in the old girl? Your first impression does not connect with my...
Bill Oates
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Jul 25, 2005
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Hi Bill Klein's introduction seems to say that ancient greek mathematics fore-shadowed the birth of modern mathematics. Sixteenth century input shifted the...
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Jul 25, 2005
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Len Well there are similarities and differences beteen ancient and modern mathematics. Klein seems to place the shift in the sixteenth century. But what is...
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Jul 26, 2005
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... -To the scientific. ... -Fundamentally there is no difference, the exception being in those minds which tend now toward thinking of determination as cause....
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Jul 30, 2005
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Len Sorry but I am not following you. Perhaps you could expand on some this or perhaps I am just obtuse. ... Sorry still not understanding - in fact this only...
Bill Oates
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Bill My apologies, my thoughts, my obtuse language. Scientific, as a word and wrt social perspective, was meant to indicate that all of us have (in some way)...
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Aug 3, 2005
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To say the mind is a universal is misleading because a universal does not exist irrespective of it. If a mind deems there to be objects then they exist....
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Aug 4, 2005
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Len Perhaps we have more of a communication. That we have all been made physicists is something that seems to accord with Klein's comment that mathematical...
Bill Oates
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Mr. Picard, I will tell you some points that Mr. Klein made in various places. When reading the words of any thinker ( and there are not so many thinkers as we...
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Aug 4, 2005
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Worreller Yes agreed; to 'have read' one must think the author's thoughts. Klein, in the introduction i think, wants us to appreciate that wrt our world and...
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Worreller Perhaps you could answer a question for me wrt something klein says near the end of his introduction, a look ahead so to speak. Klein says, "...we...
picard
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... Yes. J ps. Did you notice the other comments below in my pervious post? I am reluctant to point them out only because I do not have much time....
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dear moderator i am changing my address from chofborg1@... to pieiphi@... thanks len gallagher...
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Does discussion of jacob klein's work assume that the fundamentals of modern algebra, such as spencer-browns's laws of form, have masked the greek meaning of...
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I am trying to find the following article from the Journal of the History of Ideas which, based on an abstract, seems to discuss Klein's ideas about...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Aug 29, 2006
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Here it is. Burt Hopkins  ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Burt Hopkins
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Dear Burt, Thanks very much. Unfortunately, I forgot to mention that I have the klein list configured to remove email attachments -- to protect subscribers...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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*Journal of the History of Ideas* 57.2 (1996) 233-253 ... [image: [Project Muse]]<http://muse.jhu.edu.ezp1.harvard.edu/muse.html> [image: [Search Page]]...
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I notice several new members but no postings. Why did you join? B...
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I notice several new members but no postings. Why did you join? B...
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I was hoping the group would consider the later parts of his book, but the discussion seemed to get bogged down on Plato. I wrote a book on the foundations of...
JP Mayberry, Research...
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... I presume you refer to "The foundations of mathematics in the theory of sets", Cambridge, 2000 (it's ok to plug your book here). If your book was inspired...
Robert Eldon Taylor
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