Containing the substance of all that has been written on this subject by Theo of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Iamblichus, and Boetius. Together with some remarkable particulars respecting perfect, amicable, and other number, which are not to be found in the writings of any ancient or modern mathematicians. Likewise, a specimen of the manner in which the Pythagoreans philosophized about number; and a development of their mystical and theological arithmetic.
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ARITHMETIC is to be learned the first of the mathematical sciences, because it has the relation of a principle and mother to all the rest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rectangle under the extremes, sesquialter ratio, duple ratio, sesquitertian ratio, incomposite number, symphony diatessaron, symphony diapente, superpartient ratios, symphony diapason, arithmetical middle, triangular gnomon, amicable numbers, greater cube, superparticular ratio, indefinite duad, harmonic middle, invariable sameness, triple ratio, theoretic arithmetic, angular numbers, greater contains, oblong number, figurate numbers, first perfect number, first odd number Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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