A Time-Line For The History Of Mathematics

As I sat languidly in my ASL class, we began to discuss the origins of ASL. Who had created it? How was it invented? With days and days of research, I was able to answer any question on the topic of the origin of ASL. With that in mind, I began to question the dawning of everything that came to sight. After lunch, I sat in my Algebra class pondering on the commencement of math. As my teacher explored the idea of algebraic equations, I did some exploring of my own. I pulled my Algebra book out of my backpack and flipped through the pages. After a good ten minutes I realized the answer was not located within those pages. The history of mathematics was too convoluted to be found in a 293 page book; so, I started my own research. After a few days

According to the article, “A Time-line for the History of Mathematics” the first piece of evidence regarding mathematics ever discovered was around the time of 50,000 B.C.E which is now known as counting. Since mathematics was created based on the needs of mankind, the only form of math necessary was counting; this facilitated trade amongst themselves. But in countries such as China, India, Egypt and Babylon society became more complex and that entailed further development of mathematics. Based on region, the Chinese contrived the decimal position system; in India documents such as the Sulba Sutra demonstrated their usage of shapes, square roots, and approximations of the value of pie appear; in Egypt, a mathematical text was founded known as the Rhind Papyrus which held instructions for students in arithmetic and geometry; and in Babylon the first multiplication tablets were unearthed. In history, the first mention of the deaf was by Aristotle, around 300 B.C., when he stated hearing spoken language was the only way to acquire knowledge, labeling deaf people as “deaf and dumb.” As the law agreed with Aristotle’s teachings, they denied deaf people their fundamental rights and didn’t permit them to buy property or marry. During the Renaissance was when Aristotle’s ideas began to be disputed. Scholars attempted to teach the deaf communication varied in many ways. This was the mark of the beginning of sign

They adopted mathematical methods from the Egyptians and the Babylonians. This resulted in their creation of the Attic numerals by 450 B.C.. These numerals were created from a base 10 system simulating the earlier Egyptian one with symbols of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1000. Although the ancient Greek numeral system was important, most Greek mathematics was based on Geometry. Thales, one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece, was one of the firsts to create the blueprint to the abstract development of Geometry. He created the Thales Theorem and the Intercept Theorem. Another prominent mathematician at the time (6th century BC) that contributed a wealth of knowledge to the mathematical field was Pythagoras. He was the first to find the correlation between geometric elements and numbers; therefore leading to one of, if not, the most famous theorems of all-time: The Pythagorean Theorem. Other famous mathematicians that emerged within the Greek culture were Platos, Aristotle, and