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Virtual Little Falls Village Presents:

The Birth of Rationality

Join us as Pierre Larroque details the path which intellectual giants. Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius cleared for the birth of mathematics, rational thinking and democracy.

Join us for “The Birth of Rationality and the Roots of Our Civilization” with Pierre Larroque. 

Stressed out by the craziness of our world? Come rediscover rationality with those who invented it! At the origins, women and men counted basically for trading stuff. The manipulations of numbers stemmed from commercial or taxation needs, and basic geometry allowed for constructing buildings and surveying lands. 

A few intellectual giants - Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius – developed logic and the use of reason as the bases for our civilization’s advances. Their construction of mathematics, and thus of logic and philosophy, still underpins our societies, after we rediscovered it from Arabic sources in the Renaissance. Pierre Larroque will lead you through the path which those giants cleared – the synchronous birth of mathematics, rational thinking and democracy.

This program is free and open to all and is presented as a partnership between Little Falls Village and the Little Falls Library of Montgomery County Public Libraries.

Registration is required. Please register at www.littlefallsvillage.org/Rationality or by calling the Little Falls Village office at 301-320-3267.

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