The Menousa

Mason, John and Watson, Anne (2009). The Menousa. For the Learning of Mathematics, 29(2) pp. 33–38.

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Abstract

While Socrates and Meno are discussing the nature of knowledge through considering the square-root of two with one of Meno's slaves, their wives are discussing the nature of knowledge through considering the square-root of three with one of the slave girls, using a diagram based on Raphael's 'The School of Athens' being contemplated by Euclid.

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