“Neo-Pythagoreans, like Nicomachus of Gerasa... and Iamblichus... revel in... number mysticism. ...The purpose of the layman's Introduction to Arithmetic... is to explain in a manner intelligible to every one, the wonderful and divine properties of numbers. In a very entertaining way he tells about {{w|triangular number}}s... square, rectangular and {{w|polygonal number}}s... gnomic numbers and spatial numbers, about ratios and the distinction between multiple and epimoric.”

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