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This is the official website of the philosopher and mathematician Nicolas Laos, an international analyst, consultant, author, and lecturer in the fields of interdisciplinary mathematics, mathematical modeling, philosophy (including ontology, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of politics and economics), strategy, and policy analysis (including both descriptive policy analysis and prescriptive policy analysis).

As an independent intellectual, as an analyst or a consultant in financial-services, construction, technology, private-intelligence, and shipping companies, and as a researcher with some informal/adjunct international scholarly affiliations, Nicolas Laos has considered and studied several mathematical and methodological-epistemological problems as well as other analytical issues in the context of several projects in the fields of physics, engineering, biology, economics, management, social policy, policy analysis, and strategic studies.

Moreover, Nicolas Laos is the founder and facilitator of an international guild of literati that he has called the “Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry”®, and it is based on the systems of Symbolic Masonry and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The ethos and the structure of Nicolas Laos’s Masonic Project are delineated in this website.

Nicolas Laos was born in Athens, Greece, on 2 July 1974, received his formal mathematical and philosophical education within American and English educational institutions (in California, London, Mexico, and elsewhere), and his overall cultural formation bears the indelible stamp of classical Greek and Roman thought and the spirit of the Italian Renaissance (his scholarly background is presented and explained in his Lectures on Mathematics, Philosophy, and Freemasonry, which are available in this website). Furthermore, in his various endeavors, Nicolas Laos is inspired by the methodology that is known as “le plan cartésien,” named after the French philosopher and mathematician Renatus Cartesius (René Descartes), by cybernetics, as well as by modern philosophical anthropology.

As regards some more personal aspects of Nicolas Laos’s lifestyle and mentality, the following could be said: he grew up in Athens, Greece, and both of his parents were government employees working for Greece’s Ministry of Public Order; he enjoys gymnastics, and works out daily; he prefers meat-based cuisine, especially high-quality beef and pork; he likes Cuban and Nicaraguan handmade cigars; his favorite drinks are mineral water and hot black filter espresso coffee, he does not drink tea, he consumes alcohol only on special occasions, where the protocol so requires, and the only alcoholic beverages that he drinks are a few fine wines; when it comes to choosing something sweet, his favorite choices are honey, mangoes, pears, and orange butter cake, whereas he is not fond of chocolate; he prefers living in the city to the countryside; he is an ailurophile; he hardly listens to other kinds of music except medieval and classical; he enjoys discussing about science, philosophy, ideology, and politics; he abhors small talk and manipulative behavior; he likes satire as understood in ancient Greece (where the satirical artist decided to mock something in order to induce its improvement for the sake of society), but he does not like humor (because humor is a purely individualistic and selfish decision to mock something, it is not intended to improve something for the sake of society, it lacks sociality); his view of art is based on ancient Greek art, and he maintains that the Anavysos Kouros (Kroisos), the Charioteer of Delphi, and the pediments of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia embody the supreme artistic and aesthetic ideal and are the optimal works of sculpture.

Attention! Nicolas Laos’s background, mindset, and works are versatile and peculiar. Do not classify/characterize Nicolas Laos based on your preconceived notions and clichés, but only after reading and understanding his own positions, his own thinking, and his own writings.

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