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Aristotle
384–322 BCE
Greek philosopher and scientist
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Number proceeds from unity.
The primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
TOPICS: knowledge