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How Is Math Used In Ancient Greece

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Math in Ancient Greece Mathematics in Greece was founded by numerous curious minds in order to deeper understand the realm of mathematics. They were the first to make the classification of mathematics, it was prior just a broad collection of laws and calculations. Greeks dove deeper into math than their predecessors. Unlike others, they wanted to know more than math that was applicable to their daily lives. For example: they were not interested in triangular corn plots, they were interested in triangles and all the properties they withheld. Aristotle described their mathematical interests as something only people with excess time for leisure could pursue. There were three particular questions the Greeks were interested in. These questions are called the classical questions. The questions were geometric in nature and were based off the problems of squaring of the circle, doubling of the cube, and the trisection of an angle. These problems were solved using only a compass and a straight edge. These problems later influenced geometry and lead to many discoveries. Hippocrates of Chios sought to answer the classical questions. He contributed a lot to the squaring the circle problem, so much so that it is …show more content…

However, he contributed much more to mathematics than this. He had his own school and had many followers called Pythagoreans. He was the first to discover that the elements of geometry could be related to numbers. Branching off of his Pythagorean Theorem his students discovered there was a different kind of number, irrational numbers. Pythagoras also discovered that the angles of a triangle all add up to 180 degrees. Which lead to the discovery that the interior angles of a polygon with n sides is equal to 2n-4. His followers and he also discovered perfect numbers. Pythagoras became convinced that the entire universe was based on numbers, and that the planets and stars moved according to mathematical

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