Timeline for Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Nov 8, 2010 at 13:40 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | @Gerry: One person who considers Plato a mathematician put the assertion into the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article about him. It's in more than one place in the article and maybe more than one person put it there. You can look at the edit history, and maybe even find out the actual identities of those who did that. My uncertainty about the "grounds" you asked about was why I phrased my answer as a question. | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 10:58 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Who considers Plato a mathematician, and on what grounds? | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 1:57 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Aristocles according to Wikipedia's article about him. I don't know if I knew that, but I've been familiar with the nickname meaning "broad-shouldered" or something like that for a long time. | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 23:26 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @Michael, his real name being ...? | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 23:17 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | @Qiaochu Some consider him not only a philosopher but also a mathematician. And the nickname "Plato" has become so standard that probably most people don't recall what his actual name was. | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 21:06 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | I don't follow. | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 19:46 | history | answered | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |