Greek mathematics and science laid the foundation for modern knowledge from "summary" of The Life of Greece by Will Durant
Greek mathematics and science have held a place of honor in the history of human thought. We owe to the Greeks the beginning of that mental adventure which we call mathematics. The Greeks were the first to ask what numbers are, to classify them and their relations, to study their properties and their implications. They invented the abstract science of arithmetic, and began the even more abstract science of geometry.
It was in ancient Greek times that mathematics first took the form of a deductive science. The Greeks were the first people in history to make mathematics a theoretical discipline. They sought the reasons for things and tried to go back from particular facts to universal laws. They were not content with a mere classification of facts; they wanted to understand the nature of things and to discover the principles that govern them.
Greek mathematics was a revolution in human thought. The Greeks were the first to use deductive reasoning in mathematics. They were the first to demonstrate theorems by a chain of logical steps, starting from self-...
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