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David Fowler Quotes

1937–2004

David Herbert Fowler (28 April 1937 – 13 April 2004) was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory (using the process he called anthyphairesis). He disputed the standard story of

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Almost all of our texts come from Constantinople, the earliest from 888 AD, closer [in] time to us than to the supposed date of Euclid!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Fowler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.