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The ancient Greeks began the tradition, which modern mathematicians have continued, of tidying up the deductive structure of their mathematics before publication, so that it is impossible to see how they arrived at their results. The effect is elegant but almost unreadable in all but the simplest cases. This gives their mathematics an air of high-powered mystery, no doubt as intended.
"The science of conjecture : evidence and probability before Pascal"
by James Franklin