MEDEIS AGEOMETRETOS EISITO

— Inscription at entrance to
     Plato's Academy, according to
     an elementary introduction to
     philosophy by James L. Christian 

For Irving Adler, who reportedly
died on September 22, 2012—

 

Background: See Sangaku in this journal.

See also the following, from a different  
elementary introduction, by Adler—
Giant Golden Book of Mathematics,
illustrated by Lowell Hess—

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   (Detail of Flickr photo)


* See Liddell and Scott.