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		_wldu on Aug 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathemati... I was under the impression that the Romans were more applied/practical and less theoretical, but I may be wrong. I got that notion from a professor I had years ago who was fond of saying, "The Romans built roads. The Greeks talked about building roads." Has anyone else ever heard that saying?

riffraff on Aug 25, 2019 [–]

I've heard "Greeks were mathematicians, Romans were engineers", which conveys the same concept.

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