Quote#Science & Reason
The history of Greek mathematics is, for the most part, only the…
Quote byJames Gow · 1854–1923
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884), Preface.
English (original)
The history of Greek mathematics is, for the most part, only the history of such mathematics as are learnt daily in all our public schools. ...If it was not wanted, as it ought to have been, by our classical professors and our mathematicians, it would have served at any rate to quicken, with some human interest, the melancholy labours of our schoolboys.
— James Gow
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