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From Carl Boyer’s “A History of Mathematics”:
“The Pythagoreans had defined a point as “unity having position,” but Plato would rather think of it as the beginning of a line. The definition of a line as ‘breadthless length’ seems to have originated in the school of Plato…”
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“The role of Plato in the history of mathematics is still bitterly disputed. Some regard him as an exceptionally profound and incisive thinker; others picture him as a mathematical pied piper who lured men away from problems concerning the world’s work and encouraged them in idle speculation.”
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