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HISTORY OF
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MATHEMATICS
Bachelor of Arts in Philippine Studies 1-1
Mr. Audie Oliquino
Group One
 GEOMETRIC DESIGNS
Geometric shapes have long fascinated individuals in
the fields of art, science, engineering, interior design,
and many other fields.

Greek art's Geometric Period is distinguished by its

dependence on geometric forms

Geometric art was originally created as decorative

abstract patterns and used basic geometric shapes
(triangles and rectangular forms) and in some cases
used symbolism.
 FIRST COUNTING
Archaeological evidence suggests that counting has been
practiced by humans for at least 50,000 years. Ancient
societies utilized counting mostly to keep track on social and
financial data including the population of a community, the
quantity of prey animals, the value of their property, and their
debts.

The Ishango Bone, which was found in the Ishango region, is

marked with a pattern of long notches arranged in three
columns, each of which is further divided into sets. A single
stroke denotes the occurrence of "one," two strokes denote
"two," and so on. When viewed collectively, the notches
resemble a tally system for keeping track of lunar cycles.
SUMMERIAN AND BABYLONIAN
MATHEMATHICS
Based on a sexegesimal, or base 60, mathematical system, Sumerian and Babylonian
mathematics could be physically counted using the twelve knuckles on one hand and
the five fingers on the other. Babylonian numbers, unlike those of the Egyptians,
Greeks, and Romans, employed a real place-value system, similar to the decimal system
of today, where bigger values were represented by the digits printed in the left column.

Around 4,000 BC, counting and numerals

were first utilized in Sumeria, one of the
earliest civilizations. Cities needed a system
to organize and keep track of everything as
it was consumed, added to, or traded
because there were so many people, cattle,
crops, and hand-made items all in one
place.
EGYPTIAN
MATHEMATICS
It is believed that the first completely formed base 10 numeration
system was created by the Egyptians at least 2700 BCE (and
probably much early). In addition to various hieroglyphic symbols
for greater powers of ten up to a million, written numbers
employed a stroke for units, a heel-bone symbol for tens, a coil of
rope for hundreds, a lotus plant for thousands, and other
symbols.

The number one was first used as a counting unit and then later
as a measurement unit by the Egyptians. You're going to need a
standard unit of measurement if you're going to construct
obelisks, temples, pyramids, and waterways.
 PYTHAGORAS

BORN KNOWN AS
“ Pythagoras of Samos”
570 BC, Samos, Greece Greek Mathematician
Ionian Philosopher
Founder of Pythagorean
Theorem

DIED CONTRIBUTION
495 BC, Crotone, Italy He is best known in the
modern day for the
Pythagorean Theorem
and Numerology.
 EUCLID

BORN KNOWN AS
323 BC "Euclid of Alexandria,"
"Eukleides."

DIED CONTRIBUTION
Alexandria, Egypt Best known for his
treatise on geometry,
the Elements.
 ARCHIMEDES

BORN KNOWN AS
287 BCE Syracuse “Archimedes of
Italy Syracuse”

DIED CONTRIBUTION
212 BCE or 211 BCE He invented a system
Syracuse Italy for expressing large
numbers, the law of the
lever, and the
Archimedes’ Principle.
 HIPPARCHUS

BORN KNOWN AS
190 BC, İznik, ”Hipparchus of Nicaea”
Turkey

DIED CONTRIBUTION
120 BC, Rhodes, Greece The Trig-Table
 PTOLEMY “ ALMAGEST”
Ptolemy wrote the Almagest, an astronomical treatise,
around 150 CE (Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria). It
was the primary reference for Islamic and European
astronomers until the early 17th century.
Mathematike Syntaxis ("The Mathematical
Arrangement") was its original name; Almagest arose
from an Arabic corruption
of the Greek term for "largest" (megiste). It was translated into
Arabic in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, and then into
Latin in the later part of the 12th century by Gerard of Cremona.
Beginning in the 15th century, the Greek text became extensively
circulated in Europe, albeit Latin translations from Arabic
remained more important. The Almagest contains 13 volumes.
 DIOPHANTUS “ ARITHMETICA
Diophantus, renowned as the "Father of Algebra," is
best known for his work Arithmetica, which deals with
number theory and the solution of algebraic equations.
However, nothing is known about his life, and there is
considerable controversy about when he lived. The
Arithmetica is a set of 130 problems with numerical
solutions to indeterminate and determinate equations
(those with a unique
solution). The latter can be solved using a method known as
diophantine analysis. It was supposed that just six of the
original thirteen novels had survived, with the others
having been misplaced not long after they were published.
However, only the content of these six works, such as that
of Abu'l-Wafa, was translated into Arabic. Heath wrote in 4
in 1920.
 HINDU NUMERALS
In the decimal number system, Hindu-Arabic
numerals, a set of ten symbols—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
0—represent numbers. They originated in India in the
sixth or seventh centuries and were introduced to
Europe around the 12th century through the writings
of Middle Eastern mathematicians, particularly al-
Khwarizmi and al-Kindi. They marked a significant
departure from prior techniques of counting, such as
the abacus, and cleared the path for the development
of algebra.
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