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Mathematics, according to traditional opinion, deals with numbers and figures. In this book we do not begin, as Euclid began, with figures but with numbers.
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Lamotke, K. (1991). Introduction. In: Numbers. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 123. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1005-4_1
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