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Many Greek Philosphers:
- Eudemus wrote histories of arithmetic, geomtry and astronmy.
- Theophrastus contributed to the history of physics.
- Pappus wrote the Mathematical Collection, which was an account of classical mathematic from Euclid to Ptolemy.
- Pappus wrote Treasury of Analysis, a collection of the Greek works themselves.
- Proclus wrote the Commentary, treating Book I of Euclid and contains quotations due to Eudemus.
We also use many of their signs, such as Beta and Theta in math today.
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∙ 12y agothe Greeks believed that everything had to have an explaination and they used math to come up with that explaination so they invented the Pythagorean Theorem..
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