For the architects of Athens’ Golden Age, the mastery of geometry was a magical discovery that revealed the glories of nature. The Acropolis of Callicrates and Ictinus is a startling celebration of their new intellectual power. The Acropolis shows a maturity of Greek mathematics and also an appreciation of geometrical ideas. This is a work of utmost importance in that it lays the foundations of logic into mathematics and enables us to use this as a tool to explore the unknown. Every detail of the Acropolis, its masonry, sculptures and painted decorations were to be the finest ever created.

雅典黃金時期的建筑師認為，掌握幾何學是發掘自然美的魔法。衛城使卡利克拉提斯和艾士提努有機會一展杰出的智慧與身手。雅典衛城顯示了希臘人對數學的精通以及對幾何學的推崇。這項工程至關重要，它奠定了將邏輯引入數學的基石，令后人得以借此途徑探索未知世界。雅典衛城在每一處細節上，無論石匠技術、雕刻藝術，還是繪畫裝飾，都是前無古人的精美絕倫。