MATHEMATICAL PLATO

of physics and not just metaphysics, to use Aristotle s distinction. Not all readers, we should admit, will be equally convinced of the usefulness of Plato s science for today, but they will all be led more deeply into Plato s vision of reality. --ANDREW DAVISON, Westcott House, Cambridge Here is Plato for an anti-Platonic age. The author gives careful attention to some of the most important passages in the Platonic dialogues and offers new solutions to some of Plato s most famous mathematical puzzles. He then considers the implications of these penetrating studies for the philosophy of science, and the natural sciences especially. This is a book that revivifies the core themes of Platonism and restores science to worship. It shows Roger Sworder to be one of the foremost students of Plato writing today, and places him in the noble tradition of Thomas Taylor. --RODNEY BLACKHIRST, author of Primordial Alchemy and Modern Religion