Not who you're looking for? Others named Nicomachus: Greco-Syrian mathematician (c. 60 – c. 120 AD) · Late 5th-century Greek scribe · father of Aristotle · ancient Greek philosopher, son of Aristotle
“The philosophical arithmetic of the Greeks, αριθμητική, of which the arithmetic of Nicomachus is a specimen, corresponds in a measure to our number theory; the subject was designed for mature students as a preparation for the study of philosophy, and was not at all intended for children. Arithmetica is... the study of that which is implied in number.”
“Nicomachus planned his Introduction so as to explain the mathematical principles involved in the difficult Platonic passages concerning the world-soul in the Timaeus and the marriage-number in the Republic.”
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