Early Greek Culture & Mathematics

Two questions must be raised, however, within the examination of Greek mathematics. The first must ask about the role that Greek culture as a whole played in the development and evolution of Greek mathematics. Secondly, one should also inquire as to the place of the Greeks within the educational framework itself since it was through that framework that mathematics was transferred within Greek culture and finally down to the contemporary world.

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mination and promulgation of mathematical principles, since only through education were the Greeks able to spread this use of math throughout their own country, as well as to use trade and conquest to spread the principles throughout the ancient world. The Greeks taught that certain intellectual laws were universally valid. In the same vein, the coexistence of mathematical and logical principles were taught almost exclusively within the ____________________ 6 Couch, passim. Greek system. This mathematical and scientific form was directly connected with Greek culture and history.7 Indeed, one might even go so far as to say that it was the very nature of Greek culture that influenced its mathematical thinking. Could an ideology have developed using a pure sense of thinking that required logical principles to exist and applied not just the discovered but the possible discoverable laws of the universe as its basic paradigm? Thus, the history of Greek mathematics is inexorably tied with cultural and political developments. From the second millennium in the ancient world radical economic and political changes took place. As previously mentioned, the environment on the land now called Greece proved a powerful impetus in the
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