  Ancillary to his discussions of being qua being and theology (Metaphysics vi.1, xi.7), Aristotle suggests an analogy with mathematics. If the analogy is that there is a super-science of mathematics coverying all continuous magnitudes and discrete quantities, such as numbers, then we should expect that Greek mathematicians conceived of a general mathematical subject as a precursor of algebra, Descartes' mathesis universalis (universal learning/mathematics), and mathematical logic. 