Mathematics of Diverse History

Mathematics is the science of quantities, shapes, space and orders. It is applied from counting apples to studying the vast astronomical and cosmological theories of the galaxies or space itself. We use mathematics, practically all the time. Cash counters, building skyscrapers, telling time and even playing  cards is mathematics applied. We reside in a world governed by mathematics.

In the series, the history of math and how modern concepts are derived from are explained through the past of Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greek mathematics. The three ancient civilizations had used mathematics for practical problems, say predicting seasonal patterns, the flooding of the Nile, to measure land areas for taxation and more. Applications of numbers were vital for civilized people of the past.

There was also this unusual way of dealing with mathematics those we no longer being practiced  today. They have different ways or telling a certain one-digit or two-digit numbers through fingers. Aside from that, land measurements are done by hand and fist length as basic units. Lastly, there is a different way of doing division and multiplication. They used chips and two rows. The particular process was complex that I wasn’t able to understand it.

Mathematics of before is the basis of concepts of today. We actually are using the 60-base number system of the Babylonians to tell time. We also use quadratic equations for the advancement of math as a hard science. And it is the Greeks that thoroughly made the transition of ancient mathematics to modernity by famous mathematicians: Archimedes; Plato; Euchlids and more. Mathematics is so grand that it is yet the greatest thing that had been used. It had explained the universe in most cases. All hard science including economics, law, languages, and philosophy are attributed to mathematics. It is indeed the language of the universe.