James Gow (scholar) Quote

The history of Greek mathematics is, for the most part, only the history of such mathematics as are learnt daily in all our public schools....If it was not wanted, as it ought to have been, by our classical professors and our mathematicians, it would have served at any rate to quicken, with some human interest, the melancholy labours of our schoolboys.


Preface - A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884)


The history of Greek mathematics is, for the most part, only the history of such mathematics as are learnt daily in all our public schools....If it...

The history of Greek mathematics is, for the most part, only the history of such mathematics as are learnt daily in all our public schools....If it...

The history of Greek mathematics is, for the most part, only the history of such mathematics as are learnt daily in all our public schools....If it...

The history of Greek mathematics is, for the most part, only the history of such mathematics as are learnt daily in all our public schools....If it...