The aim of the present dissertation is to examine the notion of recollection in Plato`s Meno starting from mathematical studies which, in the dialogue in question, constitute a new epistemological paradigm to the platonic thought. Firstly, we contextualize the theory of recollection evoking the orphicpythagorean formulation. Secondly, we define the importance of mathematics to platonic epistemology, especially as it appears in Meno, when Plato makes use of the hypothesis method in his search to define the essence of virtue. Finally, we analyse the platonic text in order to understand the theory of recollection in its philosophical elaboration and its incidence on the mathematical-scientific signification of the hypothetical method. To sum up: the study concentrates on Meno in as much as it is configurates a way of philosophic thinking of scientific character based on more accurate and objective criteria as precise as mathematics is.