The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, explored the nature of numbers, believing that everything could be understood in terms of whole numbers or their ratios.
Ancient knowledge of the sciences was often wrong and wholly unsatisfactory by modern standards. However, the maths of Euclid, Apollonius of Perga, and Archimedes--the three greatest mathematicians of antiquity--remains as valid today as it was more than 2,000 years ago.
Roman mathematicians, in contrast to the Greeks, were renowned for being very practical. The Romans cared for the usefulness of maths in measuring and counting.
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