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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.

— Thomas Little Heath A History of Greek Mathematics (1921)

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

A History of Greek Mathematics (1921)

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

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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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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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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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