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  • Writer's pictureDiana Ross Sumalinog

WHO INVENTED MATH?


When I was a kid, I always wish to have a time machine and travel back in time to prevent mathematics discovery. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only kid who wanted to do something like that. I'm not really good at mathematics; that's why I pursue communication because I'm really not an analytical person.


Well, anyway, is mathematics invented? Or discovered? If so, who found it?

Mathematics incorporates a wide range of studies, so its revelation can't be credited to one individual. All things considered, science grew gradually more than millennia with the assistance of thousands of individuals!


How could it begin? Nobody can know without a doubt, yet we can use our minds to consider how science may have gotten its beginning. For instance, back to ancient people gathering berries to eat, we can envision how this essential undertaking reasonably gave ascend a math requirement. On the off chance that you and your old mate accumulated a container brimming with berries, you'd probably consent to part them equitably. To start with, you'd need to know the number of berries you assembled. That implies you'd need to count them. You may initially have to invent names for the basic units of estimation. Is this how checking and the principal numbers happened? Nobody knows, yet you can see how this may be the way it occurred.

Also, the division may have been formulated from the need to part that quantity of berries equally. How exceptional did ancient people get with mathematics? Presumably not far by any means, yet a requirement for specific mathematic standards probably emerged from everyday life and, in that capacity, were found or made out of need instead of inventing.


Most specialists concur that it was around this time (2,500 years prior) in antiquated Greece that arithmetic initially turned into a coordinated science. Since that time, mathematics discovery has prodded different mathematicians and researchers, continually growing our comprehension of math and its connection to our general surroundings.


So who exactly invented math? Unfortunately, everybody and nobody simultaneously. But whoever it is, thanks to him, because without math, I probably don't know how to count my allowance that my parents gave me.


If you like to know more about the origin of mathematics, take a look at the video below and investigate.




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