Fernando Q. Gouvea, Colby College, reviewed Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio at First Things.
"Mathematics does seem to evoke a feeling of timelessness and certainty. We may not formulate geometry exactly as Euclid did, but none of Euclid’s theorems is now considered false. The proofs given by Apollonius and Archimedes still work as proofs for us, and the theorems they prove are, we say, true, not just agreed upon or universally accepted."
See Apollonius of Perga, Conics, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 11.
See Archimedes, Works, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 11, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 10.See Euclid, Elements, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 11, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 10.
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