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>>  >I meant to say (and thought I said) that we simply don't know enough
>>>about the ancient Greek mathematicians to be able to judge how
>>>exactly they viewed mathematics, beauty of abstraction and such.
>>>There's simply not enough reliable written history on that subject,
>>>as far as I know.

Well there was a cult around Pythagorus I think. Euclid's books were 
famous for millenia but some were destroyed in the fire in the library in 
Alexandria.