08-23-2002, 01:43 AM
Indeed Rich, in his book, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Professor Morris Klein of New York University states that "...Yet in all of the eleven hundred years" (he's dating Roman history from 750 B.C. to A.D. 476 ) "there was not one Roman mathematician; apart from a few details this fact in itself tells virtually the whole story of Roman mathematics." <p></p><i></i>