You can read the book: Perfect Rigor
I am reading the book right now. Since I am given the opportunity by Oberon to write in this site; here you have it.
My point is that Mathematical Science appears anywhere for no particular reason. At some point in Greece, a group of free thinkers started the Western Tradition of Mathematics and Philosophy. Why Greece? Put your favorite answer here. Mine is that a brotherhood developed between a group of like minded individuals there; maybe encouraged by an open mind about homosexual love. Now jump to middle XXth Russia. In the most unlikely place, two men fall in love: Pavel Alexandrov, and Andrey Kolmogorov .
That is as unlikely as a butterfly wing flapping: producing one of the most successful Mathematics traditions to appear on this Earth since the classic Greek period.
I believe that the ways of the World are mysterious.