Nicomachus of Gerasa wrote the Introduction to Arithmetic (Arithmetike eisagoge) around AD 100, in Greek, as a two-book primer in the Pythagorean study of number. By arithmetic he does not mean computation, which the Greeks called logistic, but the theory of the kinds, properties and relations of whole numbers.
Nicomachus of Gerasa · CatalogNicomachus of GerasaNicomachus of Gerasa · CatalogNicomachus of Gerasa (fl. c. AD 100) was a Neopythagorean philosopher and mathematician from Gerasa in Roman Syria (modern Jerash, Jordan).Introduction to Arithmetic
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