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I never met Myles Burnyeat, and though I studied his work carefully, many people know it better than I do. So please don't think I'm presenting as an expert here. But: [1/N]
He was one of the very biggest influences on me as a student of ancient philosophy. I kept the Burnyeat/Levett _Theaetetus_ to hand through my dissertation (which centered on that dialogue). The harder I studied the dialogue, the more I saw the wisdom of his notes. [2/N]
...And I'm saying that even though I chose to spend years writing on that subject partly because I thought the existing literature was importantly lacking in its treatment of it. [3/N]
People don't talk much about "Platonism and Mathematics: A Prelude to Discussion," which if memory serves was a conference talk that became part of an edited volume. But it's essential for anyone who wants to think seriously about Greek epistemology... [4/N]
...or at least the corner of it having to do with math, Plato's Republic, and the way Aristotle is and isn't a Platonist. The issues he raises fundamentally informed my understanding of Plato. And, again, that's a very very small part of Burnyeat's corpus. [5/N]
Burnyeat was not Plato, but studying him is in some ways analogous: brilliant always, delightful everywhere, always clever but always always serious. Rachel Barney (characteristically) gets Burnyeat right in her review of his collected works : https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/explorations-in-ancient-and-modern-philosophy-volumes-1-2/ … [6/N]
I could go on, and perhaps I'll have time to do so elsewhere (though other people will surely have much more informed things to say about him). But, for now, RIP. [7/7]
P.S.: "Plato on Why Mathematics is Good for the Soul" is one of the very best papers I read during my Ph.D. I still think about it often. [8/7]
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