The Foundation of The United States of America

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The world struggled long and hard to achieve what it has today, countless war and civilizations declining one after another. The United States of America is a nation combined and influenced by other successful civilization. The success and wonder of America and the world simply would not be the same if it weren’t for two of the most revered and influential civilization, the Roman Empire and Athens Greece. Both were well ahead of their time in terms of invention, studies, and ideas. The United States of America owes its thanks to both of these nation; our laws, government, scientific understanding, and continued advancement in technology all started from them. Athens Greece impacted us in a broader and much more significant sense because it was the genesis for the Olympic, advance mathematics, and the start of modern medicines.
“The great book of nature can be ready only by those who know the language in which it was written. And that language is mathematics.”(Galilei, Galileo). Math is all around us, when people think of math, they think of equation and calculation. However, math is arguably one of most crucial and fundamental elements that controls and keeps our live going. Athens Greece is the foundation of math, with the brilliant mind of Archimedes and Pythagoras emerge the ideas of Pi and the Pythagorean Theorem. These two simple concepts helped United States and the world to achieve ground breaking and revolutionary discoveries. Pythagorean Theorem can be simply used in the architectural sense, but it can also be used to pinpoint two reference points. This simple equation is what modern GPS system uses to pinpoint and calculate the designated route, NASA uses advancement mathematics and Pythagorean theorem to determine the ...

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