The aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the ...

Let’s start with arguably the simplest fact about this new year: 2025 is a perfect square. It’s equal to 45 × 45, meaning ...

which are much more prominent outside the limited range of surviving classical Greek texts that historians have taken as the paradigm of ancient mathematics. It opens the way to providing the first ...