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According to the Ancient Greeks, the famous real and mythical founders of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, such as Pythagoras, Aristotle and others, in fact, borrowed them from the Egyptian and Middle Eastern civilizations. However, what had been told before in the hidden mysteries Greek scientists transformed into written information acceptable to everybody. Immediately after that the development of science in the modern sense started and had already reached a very high level 2000 years ago. Therefore you may say that the free exchange of information and making it clear to people were the Greeks' most important discoveries. I would say it is the basis of our science now. As you will see, any violation of this fundamental rule does serious harm to our science and inevitably leads to its decay.
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Novikov, S.P. (2010). 1. Classical and Modern Topology 2. Topological Phenomena in Real World Physics. In: Alon, N., Bourgain, J., Connes, A., Gromov, M., Milman, V. (eds) Visions in Mathematics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0422-2_15
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