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1. Athenian Mathematics

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   Athenian Mathematics refers to the distinct body of mathematical thought, practice, and pedagogy developed and codified primarily within the city-state of Athens during its Classical and early Hellenistic periods, roughly spanning the 5th through the 3rd centuries BCE. While often overshadowed by later developments in Alexandria, Athenian mathematicians laid crucial, if sometimes esoteric, groundwork, particularly in geometry and the philosophical justification of numerical properties. A central feature distingui…