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Join the roomNicomachus was the father of Aristotle. The Suda states that he was a doctor descended from Nicomachus, son of Machaon, son of Asclepius, the god of Medicine. He likely trained Aristotle in dissection and empirical observation, which was traditional for members of Asclepidae. Greenhill notes he had another son named Arimnestus and a daughter named Arimneste by his wife Phaestis, who was also a member of Asclepidae.
“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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