Leonid Zhmud

Gebundenes Buch

Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans

Beschreibung

In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers.

Autor

Leonid Zhmud has been working at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology in St. Petersburg since 1987 and is currently a leading academic researcher. In 1989, together with Lev Lurje, he founded the first Classical High School in Leningrad (Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum). Between 1990-2010 he held a vaiety of positions and fellowships, such such as the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Constance University, Germany, Junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, visiting fellowship at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, and member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine, London. He is the author of Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997), and The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780199289318
• ISBN-10: 019928931X
• Artikelnr.: 34553732