Chinese Mathematics

The Chinese numerical system is very simple, but it’s an effective system that goes back to second millennium BCE. They expressed the numbers by adjusting bamboo rods alongside each other to represent the numbers one to ten. They even invented the decimals place value that looks similar to the modern day, this system was very complicated and was adapted by the western world later; but they didn’t have any definition or concept for zero. The Chinese mathematics development was related to the growth of the Chinese empire. The Chinese need for solving equations and discovering new unknown number from common information made the discovery and the use of a sophisticated matrix-based method which it did not appear in the western world until the 18th century.

Egyptian Mathematics

Egyptians have shaped the infrastructure of mathematics thousands of years ago; even the Greeks have followed the footsteps that Egyptians left behind such as their knowledge and understanding algebra, arithmetic and geometry for tax purposes and other calculations in that time. As we can see, it is obvious how amazing the Egyptian monuments are; this indicates that the Egyptians had an extreme knowledge of applied mathematics. These building looks almost impossible to build in the modern day, and the best example is the pyramids. Egyptians primary goal was to focus more on problem-solving that encouraged them to operate as a society rather than identifying laws in math. Even the great Greek philosopher Aristotle once declared that the work of many great Egyptian mathematicians inspired and helped to develop astronomy, geometry, and the basis of mathematics that later helped the Greek to grow it even more.

Babylonians mathematics

Three thousand and seven hundred years old mud tablet was discovered in the south of Iraq. The tablets that go back to the age of Babylonians in a place was called Sumer, in Mesopotamia (Iraq today) shows the origins of the mathematics. The discovery of the tablet has a massive impact on the modern Mathematical system. It also confirmed that Babylonians developed trigonometry were fifteen thousand years more advanced than the Greeks! The Sumerian math was very accurate it was even used ancient Sumerian and Babylonians architects to build the most magnificent temples, canals, and castles in Mesopotamia. Babylonians used the base of sixty instead of the ten because merely, the sixty base is much easier to be divided by three. Many experts and scientists have proven that the base of sixty is more accurate than the base of the ten (which is used in the modern day). The Sumerians had their own numbers symbols which is similar to the contemporary numbers, these Sumerians tablets that describe the trigonometry opens new possibilities for the modern mathematics research and improves our understanding of the math as math students around the world.