但那时候，在冶金、数学、天文等学科，我们被遥远的波斯帝国以及后来的罗马帝国落下了数百年的差距。
At the time we were still hundreds of years behind Persian Empire and Roman Empire in such fields as medicine, astronomy and mathematics.
罗马的数学不值一提。
1500年，授数学于罗马，任讲师，或谓教授。1503年返回故国，任波兰佛劳恩堡地方牧师。
In 1500 he had a lectureship or professorship of mathematics in Rome, but in 1503 he returned to his native land, where he was a canon of Frauenburg.
初等数学是教育系统中最古老的文明，包括古希腊，罗马帝国，吠陀社会和古埃及。
Elementary mathematics was part of the education system in most ancient civilisations, including ancient Greece, the Roman empire, Vedic society and ancient Egypt.
那是古罗马和古希腊平民闻所未闻的，时代迁流，潜心诵读它们的学者已成稀有，而今唯少数学者亦不辍研读这些作品。
What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear, after the lapse of ages a few scholars read, and a few scholars only are still reading it.
那是古罗马和古希腊平民闻所未闻的，时代迁流，潜心诵读它们的学者已成稀有，而今唯少数学者亦不辍研读这些作品。
What the Roman and Grecian multitude could not hear, after the lapse of ages a few scholars read, and a few scholars only are still reading it.
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