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Almost the whole of Greek science and philosophy begins with Thales.
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If one would understand the Greek genius fully, it would be a good plan to begin with their geometry.
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The problem of doubling the cube was henceforth tried exclusively in the form of the problem of the two mean proportionals.
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Greek mathematics reveals an important aspect of the Greek genius of which the student of Greek culture is apt to lose sight.
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Aristotle would... by no means admit that mathematics was divorced from aesthetic; he could conceive, he said, of nothing more beautiful than the objects of mathematics.
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The Pythagoreans discovered the existence of incommensurable lines, or of irrationals. This was, doubtless, first discovered with reference to the diagonal of a square...
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Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.
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It is... the author's confident hope that this book will give a fresh interest to the story of Greek mathematics in the eyes both of mathematicians and of classical scholars.
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Eudoxus was perhaps the greatest of all Archimedes's predecessors, and it is his achievements, especially the discovery of the method of exhaustion, which interest us in connection with Archimedes.
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Thomas Little Heath
Born:
October 5, 1861
Died:
March 16, 1940
(aged 78)
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