Author： Rosenblatt Louis B.
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0926-7220
Source： Science and Education, Vol.13, Iss.4-5, 2004-07, pp. : 379-388
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Abstract
We begin with the pendulum and the curious authority of the expression for the period of its swing, T = 2π√ l/g. That this is not an empirical result - π$ is an irrational number -leads to an examination of the nature of physics. In the course of things, we come to Plato's critique of poetry in
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