Introduction: Indian, in particular, Hindu, mathematics has not been given the credit or recognition that it deserves. Many of the foundational concepts used in all mathematics were first discovered by the Hindu Indians. This paper will discuss many of these concepts and how they were used in the fifth through the eighth centuries. Apart from direct testimony on the point, the literature of the Hindus furnishes unmistakable evidence to prove that the ancient Hindus possessed astonishing power
into the Mathematics used by the American Indians. The history of American Indians and how they incorporated mathematics into their lives is scarce. However from the information retrieved by Archeologists, we have an idea of the type of mathematics that was used by American Indians. Introduction When the history of American Indians come into mind, our minds tend to ponder on teepees, dances around the fire, feathers, and the stereotypical Pocahontas-like features of American Indians. As a matter
Fibonacci Leonardo Fibonacci was one of the great mathematicians of his time. His lifestyle allowed him to travel and study math in various countries, and he ended up combining his cultural knowledge to discover the most effective ways of doing mathematics. He is most famous for his contributions to the European number system and for his sequence of numbers known as the Fibonacci numbers. Starting with 0 and 1 as the first two numbers, each number in the sequence is the sum of the two preceding
There were five of these works with the most complete survivor being the Surya Siddhanta. These texts first defined the sine as the modern relationship between half an angle and half a chord. They also defined cosine, versine, and inverse sine. An Indian mathematician name Aryabhata (476 – 550 AD) later expanded on the developments of the Siddhantas in an influential and important work called the Aryabhatia. The Siddhantas and Aryabhatia contain the earliest surviving table of sine and versine
Zeno’s Paradox and its Contributions to The Notion of Infinity Name: Dejvi Dashi School: King’s-Edgehill School IB nr: 000147-0006 Mathematics Exploration May 2014 Date: March 31st, 2014 Word Count: 2681 Achilles and the Tortoise is one of the many mathematical and philosophical paradoxes that were expressed by Zeno of Elea. His purpose was to present the idea that motion is nothing but an illusion. Many solutions have been offered as an explanation to these paradoxes for many years
The period 213 BCE to 1425 CE, are characterized by the beginning of a gradual ceasing of the isolation of China and India to the outside world. Due to natural boundaries (mountains, seas and deserts) providing the isolation, mathematics in India and China were almost developed independently during the ancient era. It was the Silk Road, began during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), that opened up communication between the West and Southern and Eastern Asia. With this communication, cultures
the time the Babylonians and Egypt developed their mathematics; Indians had worked independently and made an advanced mathematical discovery. During the early time of Indian, they were already familiar with arithmetic operations such as addition, multiplication, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, squares, cubes and roots. The evidence of using Pythagorean triples was also traced as part of Hindu mathematics long before Pythagoras. The Indian text known as “Sulba Sutras” contains a geometric approach
Aryabhata, for instance, used his knuckles as a calendar. January would start from the pinky of the left hand. February would be the ring finger of the left hand and so on. All that is known about Aryabhata is that he was indeed one of the first Indian astronomers and mathematicians. However, information was discovered until the books Aryabhatiya and Surya Siddhanta were found. Aryabhata wrote Aryabhatiya, in it, he stated that he was twenty-three years of age and he finished writing the book in
Throughout history, mathematics has played a major role in humanities existence. The global need to count and use math developed through numerous mathematical systems in societies, such as, Egyptian, Babylonian, Mayan, Roman, and Hindu-Arabic. However, the number “zero” did not exist in the early age of math. Numbers were initially used to count things; counting-wise, it does not make sense to count something “zero”, thus zero was not used until later in the history. I consider zero to be the most
learning about and using Computers and Mathematics. Having a profound interest in discrete mathematics, I have always wanted to work on logic and that is the major reason for me to choose Computing. During my A-levels, I learned Visual Basic independently and how logic can be utilized for problem solving in any complex scenario. I also implemented these useful VB codes into my AS ICT coursework for which I received 97%. The puzzle-solving aspect of mathematics has always intrigued me and led me to
S. Gudder once wisely stated, “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” Many people have different views of mathematics and the role it plays in their life. There are some students who believe that learning mathematics is useless and is not a necessity for their major, and there are others who find math, arithmetic, and numbers easier to process. I find Gudder’s thoughts to be true based on my upbringings and recent experience
In the allegory, The Library of Babel, the writer, Jorge Borges metaphorically compares life to a library. Given a muse with such multifarious connotations, Borges explores a variety of themes. However, the theme I found the most obvious and most pervasive was the concept of infinity which goes alongside the concurrent theme of immeasurability. These two themes, the author, seems to see as factual. From the introduction, one starts to see this theme take form: the writer describes the library as
science, engineering, and philosophy. Mathematics started with counting. In Babylonia mathematics developed from 2000B.C. A place value notation system had evolved over a lengthy time with a number base of 60. Number problems were studied from at least 1700B.C. Systems of linear equations were studied in the context of solving number problems. The basic of mathematics was inherited by the Greeks and independent by the Greeks beg the major Greek progress in mathematics was from 300 BC to 200 AD. After
alterations of them every day. Greece’s discoveries have more of an influence on us today than those of India and China because we use these discoveries more often in the field of astronomy, theoretical sciences, important technology, and everyday mathematics. Astronomy is a very important field in science. Ancient Greece, China, and India all contributed to our everyday ideas and uses of astronomy. Ancient Greece was the most influential because the Indian’s based most of their astronomy off of Greece
his own on mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series. Ramanujan was shown how to solve cubic equations in 1902 and he went on to find his own method to solve the quartic. It was in the Town High School that Ramanujan came across a mathematics book by G. S. Carr called Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics. Ramanujan used this to teach himself mathematics. The book contained theorems, formulas and short proofs. It also contained an index to papers on pure mathematics. By 1904
stick more to the reality. The relation between creativity and mathematics was also found not only in
called the Brotherhood of Pythagoreans. The Brotherhood of Pythagoreans devoted themselves to the study of mathematics. Pythagoras believed that "Number rules the universe,”. Pythagoreans gave numerical values to many objects and ideas. Pythagoras is best known for proving that the Pythagorean Theorem was true. Pythagoreans were interested in philosophy, especially in music and mathematics. Pythagoras and his follower, Pythagoreans, had two ways of making order out of chaos. Music is noise that
making made in everyday life. A way to sharpen one’s problem-solving skill is through the use of Mathematics. This is one of the fundamental disciplines in education and learning. Mathematics is one subject that pervades life at any age and in any circumstance. Thus, its value goes beyond the classroom and the school. Mathematics as a school subject, therefore, must be learned comprehensively. Mathematics is something that we deal with everyday, thus it is appropriate for us to learn the basics no matter
Golden age of Muslim learning was on 7th to the 13th century. A lot of muslim scholars had contributed many aspects of knowledge, which one of them is mathematics. They contributed and invented the present arithmetical decimal system and the fundamental operations connected with it such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation and extraction of the root. There are many scholars had contributed in this field such as Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Kindi, Al-Battani and Al-Biruni. Muhammad
The History of Math Mathematics, study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. In the past, mathematics was regarded as the science of quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry, or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the generalization of these two fields, as in algebra. Toward the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the