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Dark Fields of the Republic

This post was suggested by today's previous post, Depth, by Plato's Diamond, and by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's recent fanciful fiction about Plato. Plato, Republic , Book II, Paul…

Depth

"… this notion of ‘depth’ is an elusive one even for a mathematician who can recognize it…." — G. H. Hardy,  A Mathematician's Apology Part I:  An Inch…