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Math and Science play very important roles in ancient history and influenced the development of ancient civilizations in the past and even today. Both of these applications have played important roles in civilizations throughout history, especially in Ancient Greece. The science and math applications used today are a result of Greece, India and China’s contributions to these subjects. Ancient China, India, and Greece all had important contributions in math and science. These contributions include the discovery of the pythagorean theorem, the concept of zero, and achievements in astronomy, medicine, technology, and earth science. Although each civilization had something to contribute, Ancient Greece was the most beneficial and influential to our society today.
The Chinese mainly developed mathematics such as negative numbers, decimals, place value systems, a binary system, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, pythagorean theorem and many other types of mathematics during ancient times. The Decimal system was a mathematical system of base counting, The Binary system usually represents...

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