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Vitrac, Bernard. The Odyssey of Reason. UNESCO Courier (1989), 29--35.
The development of Greek schools, the role of mathematics in Greek thought, "pure" and "applied" mathematics, the mathematical community that existed in the Hellenistic era. Includes a passage by Proclus on Geminus' classification of mathemata (the root mathema originally meant "that which is taught", so included all branches of knowledge). Reprinted in edited form in Swetz, Frank J., From Five Fingers to Infinity. Closely related topics: Greece and Applied Mathematics (General).