Examinando por Autor "Petakos, Kyriakos"

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    Important mathematical concepts at the dawn of science in Byzantium : the philosopher C. M. Psellos.
    (2011-10-13) Petakos, Kyriakos
    The Byzantine Empire, an empire that lasted over one thousand years, is acknowledged nowadays as the spiritual source of the European intellectual rebirth of the middle ages. What really distinguishes this great state from any other important country of the time is among others a solid conviction of equality of chances in at least a fundamental component of progress: education. What we try to demonstrate here is the fact that natural sciences such as mathematics were treated in the above sense with the utmost respect by remarkable personalities whose traditional role seemed to be far from the common sense of this scientific branch, but in its true nature was nourished and fostered by the essence of mathematics. Diplomacy and highly exerted church leadership intertwined with mathematical exploration.
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    Mathematical thought before the fall of an empire: the cardinal Bessarion's vita sum numa et arte plato.
    (2011-10-13) Petakos, Kyriakos
    An empire is just about to collapse for ever bringing about an intellectual sort of death that is detrimental not only to the nation that su ers the loss of his heart, the Greeks, but also the whole western civilization. In these last tragical moments where survival monopolizes the human existence as a form of self-preservation, mathematical thinking prevails on the mind of a clergy personality. It is the cardinal Bessarion, whose manuscripts scattered in the aristocraticsometime ago full of Greeks -suburbs of Bosporus reveal parallel to his love for such a wellstructured science another application of mathematics rarely conceived by today educators:oratory and its undoubted power.