I've got one more #mathober post - today's prompt is "recursion", and this by-hand construction of the Spiral of Theodorus seems sort of recursive. Just keep adding triangles over and over. The length of the hypotenuses are the square roots of 2 through 17 times the edge length of the smallest triangle.
Here is the last of the Sadler's Podcast episodes on Aristippus and the Cyrenaic school. This one focuses on Theodorus' reinterpretation of their ethics
https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/diogenes-laertes-theodorus-interpretation-of-cyrenaic-ethics
#Theodorus #Ethics #Philosophy #Podcast #Cyrenaic #Pleasure #Pain #Happiness #Prudence #Virtue
This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient doxographer Diogenes Laertes' Lives of the Philosophers book 6, The Life of Aristippus It focuses specifically on the philosopher Theodoras' reinterp
Here is the last in the set of new core concept videos on the Cyrenaic school of philosophy, one that's often called a "minor Socratic" school. This one is on Theodorus' reinterpretation
https://youtu.be/ZfKx9FJsAY8
#Video #Cyrenaic #Hedonism #Theodorus #Philosophy #Happiness #Ethics
Plot a Spiral:
- https://write.as/bs2lr/plot-a-spiral
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