Math, we live it every
day, through classes at schools and colleges, money or how much we owe,
counting, you name it! But, did you know that the Greeks started mathematics?
That’s right, they did. In the B.C. times, before Televisions, iPods,
Computers, Video Games, Cars or anything in the modern world or the worldwide
spread of knowledge, there were ancient civilizations called the
4-civilizations.
One of the economic
activities was to manage their farmlands, this was a form of ancient
mathematics. They were also using early forms of algebra and arithmetic too. It
just so happens, that it was organized in the Orient which was the world east
of Greece. A group under the name the
Pythagoreans got together and coined the word mathematics or math which is
Greek for the three words: knowledge, learning and study. Math is also the study of quantity, space,
structure, and change. However, not only the Greeks started mathematics; many
other people like the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mayans, Romans, Hindu-Arabics and
others also helped the math revolution begin.
Famous people like
Albert Einstein, Benjamin Pierce, Galileo Galilei, and Carl Friedrich Gauss
have studied mathematics and have become successful mathematicians, which are
people who study math. Today, math is everywhere, on computers, in schools, at
work, even all over the world. Without it we wouldn’t know what time it was, or
know how many pieces of the pie there are. We should thank the ancient
civilizations that started this wonderful revolution of mathematics we know
today.
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