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By Serafina Cuomo

the concept of Pythagoras, Euclid's "Elements", Archimedes' solution to locate the amount of a sphere: all elements of the priceless legacy of historic arithmetic. yet old arithmetic was once additionally approximately counting and measuring, surveying land and attributing mystical importance to the quantity six.
This quantity bargains the 1st available survey of the self-discipline in all its style and variety of practices. The interval lined levels from the 5th century BC to the 6th century advert, with the focal point at the Mediterranean quarter. subject matters include:
* arithmetic and politics in classical Greece
* the formation of mathematical traditions
* the self-image of mathematicians within the Graeco-Roman period
* arithmetic and Christianity
* and using the mathematical previous in overdue antiquity.

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