Autores:
  • It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

    Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.95, Routledge