Category Archives: School of Athens

William Thurston

Posted on August 8, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Xianfeng David Gu and Shing-Tung YauTo a topologist, a rabbit is the same as a sphere. Neither has a hole. Longitude and latitude lines on the rabbit allow mathematicians to map it onto different forms while preserving information. William Thurston … Continue reading →

Posted in Aristotelean Arche, deduction, Induction, Klein, Plato's Cave, Raphael, School of Athens, Self Evident, Shing-tung Yau, Socratic Method | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Inside Out

Posted on February 12, 2008 by PlatoHagel

3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason as in a kind of struggle, one in which it was vitally important for reason to win out. Aristotle took a more moderate view, that both emotion and reason … Continue reading →

Posted in Colour of Gravity, Emotion, Outside Time, Plato's Cave, Raphael, School of Athens, Self Evident, Socratic Method, Synesthesia, Topology, Toposense | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Housebuilding

Posted on April 13, 2007 by PlatoHagel

It all start off as “a dream” or “an idea.” Where do these come from? Dialogos of Eide This is the house similar to what we will be constructing, with some modifications of course. Most know of my time helping … Continue reading →

Posted in Blank Slate, Colour of Gravity, Deep Play, Euclid, Foundation, House Building, Library, Liminocentric, Mandalas, Raphael, School of Athens, Signatore, Topology, Toposense | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hermetic Ties: Art to Esoteric Form

Posted on January 30, 2007 by PlatoHagel

The father of all perfection in the whole world is here. Its force or power is entire if it be converted into Earth. Separate the Earth from the Fire, the subtle from the gross, sweetly with great industry. It ascends … Continue reading →

Posted in Albrecht Durer, Alchemists, Aristotelean Arche, Earth, geometries, Induction, Raphael, School of Athens, Self Evident, Signatore, Sun, Tablet, Three Body Problem, Woodcuts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Whose who, in the School of Athens

Posted on January 29, 2007 by PlatoHagel

I was over visiting Clifford’s blog called Asymptotia this morning and notice a blog entry called, Heretics of Alexandria. Of course, what first came to mind is the “Library of Alexandria.” Clifford writes and paraphrases: This full length drama, set … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandria, Euclid, geometries, Library, Raphael, School of Athens, Signatore, Socrates, Socratic Method, Timaeus | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

PLATO:Mathematician or Mystic ?

Posted on January 8, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Chaldni, Concepts, geometries, imagery, Mathematics, Music, nodal, nodal Gauss Riemann, Plato, School of Athens | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Raphael the Painter

Posted on October 25, 2006 by PlatoHagel

By ‘dilating’ and ‘expanding’ the scope of our attention we not only discover that ‘form is emptiness’ (the donut has a hole), but also that ’emptiness is form’ (objects precipitate out of the larger ‘space’) – to use Buddhist terminology. … Continue reading →

Posted in Blank Slate, Complexity, Creativity, geometries, Induction, Intuition, Liminocentric, Medicine Wheel, Music, Plato's Cave, Ramanujan, Raphael, School of Athens, Socratic Method, Sun | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Music in Plato’s Academy

Posted on June 3, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Academy was a suburb of Athens, named after the hero Academos or Ecademos. The site was continuously inhabited from the prehistoric period until the 6th century A.D. During the 6th century B.C., one of the three famous Gymnasiums of Athens … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Brain, Euclid, geometries, Mathematics, Music, School of Athens, Sound | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Where to Now?

Posted on December 30, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Once you see parts of the picture, belonging to the whole, then it becomes clear what a nice picture we will have?:) I used it originally for the question of the idea of a royal road to geometry, but have … Continue reading →

Posted in Cosmic Strings, deduction, Dimension, Einstein, Gauss, geometries, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Gravity, Hulse, imagery, Imagery dimension, KK Tower, Mathematics, nodal, Non Euclidean, Quantum Gravity, School of Athens, Taylor, Topology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Sound of the Landscape

Posted on December 29, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK As you know my name is Plato (The School of Athens by Raphael:)I have lived on for many years now, in the ideas that are presented in the ideas of R Buckminister Fuller, and with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ashmolean Museum, Dimension, Earth, Euclid, geometries, Landscape, M Theory, Music, nodal, Polytopes, Raphael, School of Athens, Sound, String Theory, Susskind | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment