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Are there any confirmed accounts of ancient Greek or Roman mathematicians owning slaves?
The main assumption in the cited question are false:
I think one of the main reasons is slavery. You need much free time to do mathematics.
This impression is based on the picture of slavery and/or ...
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Are there any confirmed accounts of ancient Greek or Roman mathematicians owning slaves?
Yes, because owning slaves was so much the norm in ancient Greece that it would have been surprising if they had not. Biographical details are generally scarce, but we do have Diogenes Laertius, Lives ...
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Are there any confirmed accounts of ancient Greek or Roman mathematicians owning slaves?
The poverty line in Republican Rome was not being able to own one slave. Sulla once qualified as being poor. Later in life he became dictator and very rich. But in his younger years he was anything ...
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