"Between the workable empiricism of the early land measurers... of ancient Egypt and the geometry of the Greeks in the sixth century before Christ, there is a great chasm. ...and the chasm is bridged by deductive reasoning applied consciously and deliberately to the practical inductions of daily life. Without the strictest deductive proof from admitted assumptions, explicitly stated as such, mathematics does not exist. This does not deny that intuition, experiment, induction, and plain guessing are important elements in mathematical invention. It merely states the criterion by which the final product of all guessing, by whatever name it be dignified, is judged to be or not to be mathematics. It is not known where or when the distinction between inductive inference—the summation of raw experience—and deductive proof from a set of postulates was first made, but it was sharply recognized by the Greek mathematicians as early as 550 B.C."
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Eric Temple Bell, The Development of Mathematics (1940)
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