Dear All, Your are welcome to put any addition about the history of the science of Mathematics specially at its beginning?
I like to think that the very origins of the west do not lie in people such as Plato or Aristotle, but after all in Euclide's Elements. As it is well known, Euclides synthesised and compiled -a number of years after Plato and Aristotle- nearly all knowledge available until then in his 13 books.
The very origins of the western civilisation consists in thinking about space, geometry and the very method and process introduced by Euclide.
A fantastic reading that I suggest is:
O'Halloran, K. L. (2005). Mathematical Discourse: Language, Symbolism and Visual Images. London and New York: Continuum. (reprinted 2008).
it is an immensely useful reading and opens up new ways of looking at mathematics, in a truly interdisciplinary fashion.
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