Abram Kaplan
Articles by Abram Kaplan:
Directions for Mathematical Nature
in Issue 33 | No Number in Nature (Oct 2013)« ever greater in proportion » - Ptolemy’s Almagest - The parallel circles of the visible fixed stars - simplicity and self-sameness - by constant attention, the perfect prince could stave off all surprise - its errors don’t add up - the tiny corpuscles out of which everything was made - the solar system no more stable than the city - the limit of an ellipse - a wider range of curves
The Student’s Blush
in Issue 29 | Faces and Masks (Jun 2013)not the doctor famous for his oath - wisdom is a calculus of pleasures - an agonistic logic of its own - Thrasymachus getting angry - blind spots that he can exploit - the other Platonic reflex, laughter