Alfred North Whitehead Quote

Mathematics as a science commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specification of definite particular things. These propositions were first enunciated by the Greeks for geometry; and, accordingly, geometry was the great Greek mathematical science.


An Introduction to Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 1958), Chapter 2, "Variables"


Mathematics as a science commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without...

Mathematics as a science commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without...

Mathematics as a science commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without...

Mathematics as a science commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without...