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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.

— Thomas Little Heath Achimedes (1920)

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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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If one would understand the Greek genius fully, it would be a good plan to begin with their geometry.

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Almost the whole of Greek science and philosophy begins with Thales.

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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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