Thursday, March 15, 2018


Greek Mathematics


It all started after the arrival of the Greek empire in Asia; they got a lot of knowledge from every place they vanquished. The Greeks obtained many critical mathematical concepts from the ancient civilization such as the Sumerian and Egyptian culture. Attic or Herodianic is an old Greek numerals system that was found in 450 BC, and the ten systems was used by the Greeks the same as the Egyptians, but the primary focus of the Greeks in mathematics was on Geometry such as Thales' Theorem rather than other fields. Mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century gave the birth to the Greek mathematics. Even the idea of infinity was coined by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea in the 5th Century BC. Their achievements in developing the math were incredible and influential for the modern day.  

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