Lucio Russo Quotes:

Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.

- Lucio Russo

source: "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

topic: Finite Number, Numbers, Doe, Reducing, Mathematical Analysis, Euclid

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