brief history of maths

    Mathematics came from Greek word (máthēma), which means learning, study and science. It is the study of quantity, structure, space by logical operations, axioms, and definitions

    Mathematics is the world that we see and touch; it controls all the constants laws of nature. For the most sciences, it’s the air that breaths.  The ability to compute, related to the power of technology and to the ability of social organisation, and the geometrical understanding of space-time, that is the physical world and its natural patterns, show the scientific and cultural role of Mathematics in the history of Civilisation and in the future development of the Information Society.

   The Babylonians and the Egyptians are the firsts how began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy. The systematic study of mathematics in its own right began with the Ancient Greeks between 600 and 300 BC. In 766 AD the Arabs translated and developed the Greek, Indian, Syriac works. In many respects the mathematics studied today is far closer in style to that of the Arabic/Islamic contribution than to that of the Greeks. The 17th century saw an unprecedented explosion of mathematical and scientific ideas across Europe. Throughout the 19th century mathematics became increasingly abstract. The 20th century saw mathematics become a major profession. Every year, thousands of new Ph.D.s in mathematics are awarded. The development and continual improvement of computers, at first mechanical analog machines and then digital electronic machines, allowed industry to deal with larger and larger amounts of data to facilitate mass production and distribution and communication.