Early Mathematical Science and Philosophy - "Metaphysics" Book A.5
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In contrast to the Naturalists who saw matter as the Ultimate Cause, other ancient thinkers preferred Numbers. Chief among these were the followers of Pythagoras. Math was such a new and powerful in this age that is almost seemed like magic. Aristotle takes these people seriously and his views are relevant to those debated today, when exotic forms of math are still just as mysterious as Euclid was then.
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