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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0875-4Algebra; Cantor; Finite; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Middle Ages; Plato; Problem-solving; calculus; eighteent

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Mathematics for Civil Servants,, however, believed that geometry was created because the annual flooding of the Nile necessitated surveying, to redetermine land boundaries. Indeed, Democritus called the Egyptian mathematicians ‘ropestretchers’.

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The Dawn of Deductive Mathematics,st. The first Greek mathematician and philosopher was Thales of Miletus, a contemporary of the prophet Ezekiel (600 B.C.). (Miletus was on the southwestern coast of Turkey.) According to Proclus, Thales visited Egypt and learned geometry there. Thales predicted the solar eclipse that occurred over Greece and Mesopotamia on May 28, 585 BC.

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The Earliest Number Theory,lture reached its peak about 575 B.C., under Nebuchadnezzar. The mathematical achievements we shall discuss in this chapter are recorded on the clay tablets of the Sumerians and Babylonians. Most of these achievements go back as far as 2000 B.C. — about the time when Abraham’s father was living in t

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The Pythagoreans,ius, Pythagoras studied under the Babylonians, and he may have met the prophet Daniel in Babylon. Prom the clay tablet Plimpton 322, we know that the Babylonians had a well-worked-out theory of ‘Pythagorean triangles’, and Pythagoras would have learnt this from them. Pythagoras may have discovered t

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