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Tbh, I want my memes with sources. and this one is strange...
https://civilizationchronicles.com/roman-engineering-and-mathematics/ claims that mathmatics were essensial to roman engineering.
whereas this (only abstract avaliable...) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-66494-0_25 claim that mathmatics were but an auxillary science? ๐ค
nontheless mathmatics seems to have been quite understood and used by the roman engineers building among other things, aqueducts
The engineer guy on YouTube did an episode the engineering method explaining how ancient and medieval Masons built stuff without math. https://youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU?si=2N_iyZiBD8eDpltR
Though I am sure the Romans used plenty of math during the construction of many of their projects.
That video shows that all of those ancient engineers relied heavy on math. What do think math is, if not all of the engineering principles laid out in that video?
You know what I mean. Sorry my words weren't good enough