Maria Ascher's *Mathematics Elsewhere,* identifies mathematical ideas that are present all over the world, and is "intended as another step toward a global and humanistic history of mathematics." (Ascher IV) This important volume clarifies how many universal mathematical concepts, both simple and complex, are used and understood by countless cultures worldwide, regardless of differences in geography, language, and era. By studying and widening the scope of the history and breadth of mathematical thought, Ascher argues that "we are supplying complexity and texture... [and] in short, enlarging our understanding of the variety of human expressions and human usages associated with the same basic ideas." (2)…
Smith, D. E. (1951). History of Mathematics: General Survey of the History of Elementary Mathematics (Vol. 1). New York: Dover Publications.…
Born muslim in c. 780,Al-Khwārizmī, became a mathematician,not any mathematician but “the father Of Algebra “ who also studied astronomy,geography ,history and made history .Due to lost documents and the time period in which he lives in;many details about his life are unknown and uncertain .He was an intelligent man Al-Khwārizmī lived in Baghdad, where he worked at the “House of Wisdom”This was a place…
From the field of mathematics came Al-Kwarizmi's textbook on Algebra (document 4), which was used throughout Europe and beyond; and also Arabic numerals which were adopted from the Indians and used in a place-value system (document 4). These advancements were made possible because of the knowledge of both Indian and Greek mathematics, which were studied by Muslim scholars before the creation of any Islamic…
The life and brutal death of Hypatia of Alexandria has been a topic of debatable discussion since the 4th century C.E. She lived Alexandria, Egypt (the center of ancient knowledge) and while it is assumed that she learned the study of mathematics from her father, “Theon of Alexandria” it is known that she was the head geometry teacher of the Neo-Platonist school (Belenky, 2010). Hypatia is regarded as one of the first women that contributed in many ways to the field of mathematical findings that have forever changed the way we think and see the world today. One major way she contributed to the development of mathematics is by building on to the work of an earlier mathematician, an Egyptian named Diophantus. Diophantus worked with quadratic equations and equations having multiple solutions; these equations are known as indeterminate equations. For example, the problem of changing a one-hundred-dollar bill into twenties, tens, fives and ones leads to an indeterminate equation because there are multiple solutions available.…
In this time, “Europe was in deep slumber” (crest of the peacock). The transference of this knowledge to European colonies resulted in the production of some of the most influential mathematical knowledge. From a political point of view, mathematical knowledge can be considered as power. The mathematisation of modern life and society has been growing exponentially, so much so that the majority of human movements are conceptualised and controlled numerically. A strong education system has become the key to the quantified thought processes that are required in modern citizens.…
Some may say mathematics aren’t all that important. There are actually thousands of different jobs that require some knowledge of mathematics. Without mathematics you wouldn’t that there is a big difference between $100 and $1,000. Although mathematics is used in everyday life, some may say creating games was way more important than anything. For others, the creation of games may be more important because that may be all they do, all day long. While that may be true, in someone else’s opinion math helped change the world for the better. Why for the better? Because math has brightened the future. A thousand years before Europeans made significant advances in the field, scholars in Muslim civilization were creating new mathematical…
During the twelfth century he introduced a decimal point number system by his translations on the Indian numerals. His book “The Compendious Book on Calculations by Completion and Balancing” had the first answer to Arabic linear and quadratic equations. Later he was named the original creator of algebra.…
The contribution of the abacist to the development of mathematics in Europe was greatly attributed to the development of…
Later came the Pythagoreans who followed Pythagoras, the Father of Numbers. He said that the basis for everything was numbers. His idea was that everything could be broken down into numbers. If a volcano were to explode or a fire was to destroy a town Pythagoras believed that it was because of numbers. His idea is still being used today by scientists, mathematicians, and even higher level algebra students as he later created the Pythagoras theorem.…
India and China prepared the main contributions in the past for mathematics that has influenced mathematics in today’s day and age, with numerous discoveries that would inspire the world of mathematics to an unimaginable degree. The period 213 BCE and 1425 CE is important to examine just because we believe that this was the approximate time of the Buddhist missionaries, were they travelled with their religion to many areas with in Asia including China and Tibet in the north. Through this journey the spread of religion and culture was performed. Giving birth to the opportunity to trade ideas and thoughts, allowing the migration of books and creation of new translation meant that a rise of innovative ways of problem solving and mathematical thinking was formed. Concepts like π and 0 were created and established, and was acknowledged widely across the globe when it inhabited different nations, in comparison to such concepts of infinity took considerably longer for mankind to accept. Commencing the comparisons and the contrasts between India and China’s religion, improvements in mathematics It can be said that the thinking between the two nations have been alike as discoveries in mathematics and ideology have been through each other’s history.…
Our first knowledge of mankind’s use of mathematics comes from the Egyptians and Babylonians. Both civilizations developed mathematics that was similar in scope but different in particulars. There can be no denying the fact that the totality of their mathematics was profoundly elementary2 , but their astronomy of later times did achieve a level comparable to the Greeks.…
Aryabhata (IAST: Āryabhaṭa; Sanskrit: आर्यभटः) (476–550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are the Aryabhatiya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-siddhanta.…
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At age 52, while living in Croton, Italy, Pythagoras established the Pythagorean society. It was through this society and his positions in local government that Pythagoras recruited men and women in order to lead them to the pure life with his spiritual and mathematical teachings. Pythagoras believed that number was limiting and gave shape to all matter and he impressed this upon his followers (Gale, 1998). During his time leading the Pythagoreans, Pythagoras not only proved the Pythagorean Theorem, but also made other mathematical contributions. One of those contributions was that a number is an abstract entity, separable from all specifics. He also discovered that the sum of the angles in a triangle is equal to two right angles. While Pythagoras himself provided the world with mathematical insight, his followers also helped to advance mathematics. One follower in particular, Hippasus,…