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b. 120 Greece

Nicomachus, or Nicomachus of Gerasa, (Greek: Νικόμαχος; c. 60 – c. 120 CE) was an important ancient Greek mathematician best known for Introduction to Arithmetic and Manual of Harmonics. He was born in Gerasa, in the Roman province of Syria (now Jerash, Jordan).

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Scientific number, being set over such things as these, should be harmoniously constituted, in accordance with itself; not by any other but by itself.

Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)

Number is limited multitude or a combination of units or a flow of quantity made up of units; and the first division of number is even and odd.

Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)

Two other sciences in the same way will accurately treat of 'size': geometry, the part that abides and is at rest, [and] astronomy, that which moves and revolves.

Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)

Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out of opposites...
Book I, Chapter VII

Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)

Every number is at once half the sum of the two on either side of itself...
Book II, Chapter XXV

Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)

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