He went to school in Cape Town between 1948 and 1953, then earned a degree in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Cape Town in 1956, after which a Rhodes Scholarship (from South African College School) took him to the University of Oxford (first Balliol College, and then St Antony's College). In Oxford, he became interested in philosophy after a brief period studying mathematical logic supervised by Hao Wang, eventually writing a DPhil in philosophy, defending the ideas of Immanuel Kant about the nature of mathematical knowledge as non-empirical and non-analytic ('Knowing and Understanding', 1962, now online at AARON SLOMAN DPHIL 1962).
Between 1948 and 1953, he studied in Cape Town. He earned a degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Cape Town in 1956, after which a Rhodes Scholarship led him to Oxford (first Balliol College, then St Antony's College). During his time at Oxford, he became interested in philosophy after studying mathematical logic with Hao Wang. He later wrote a DPhil in philosophy defending Immanuel Kant's ideas about the nature of mathematical knowledge as non-empirical and non-analytic ('Knowing and Understanding', 1962, now available online as AARON SLOMAN DPHIL 1962).