New member, my dover paperback copy of klein's book just arrived.

Reading the backcover notes i was struck by the words, "...klein
investigates the revival and assimilation of greek mathematics...
from the specific standpoint of the conceptual transformation which
occurred in the course of that assimilation".
Have we learned to think that ancient greek mathematicians somehow
thought their world in abstract was flat, or does the mind strike
some balance between complexity and form?
If it is conceptual transformation then investigation is appropriate
for abstract beings such as ourselves (so 'far removed' from mere
protoplasm) trying to learn integration of thought.
len