HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

BY SURYA.T.K , EBI SHERWIN.X , SREENIVASAN.S

INDEX
✿ Introduction
✿ Who invented Mathematics ?
✿ Evolution of Mathematics
INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS
✿ The word “mathematics” comes from the Greek “mathema.” Its
meaning is knowledge.
✿ The Greek mathematicians are credited with developing mathematics.

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DO YOU KNOW THE

EVOLUTION OF
MATHEMATICS
AT A VERY BEGINNING

COUNTING
The Sumerians were the first civilisation to
have developed a counting system. It is a
common belief amongst many scientists that
some of the oldest and most basic
mathematical functions, such as addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division
have been used for over 4,000 years
ANCIENT WAY OF COUNTING
COUNTING IN BONES

In Prehistoric times, Counting

was done by ancient people
by representing check marks
on bones

ISHANGO BONE
COUNTING EVOLUTION

Ancient Inscriptions Counting using fingers Counting developed in

Abacus
FIRST EQUATION ?
The earliest true mathematical documents
date to the 12th Dynasty (c. 1990–1800
BC). The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus,
the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll
GEOMETRY
The ideas of Geometry and Numerology
was developed by Greek mathematicians
around 600 - 300 BCE. One of such famous
mathematicians was Euclid.

This was book published by Euclid named Elements or Euclidean Algorithm

 MORE ABOUT THE EUCLID'S
BOOK " ELEMENTS "

It also develops the idea of Cryptography

It has 13 chapters

He made it when he was teacher in Alexandria, collected

his famous treatise

This contains the world's understanding of geometry

 CRYPTOGRAPHY

Techniques that ensure communication in the presence of hackers

when putting sensitive informations
Found by Sulbasuthras
around 800 BCE - 500
BCE were manuals of
geometrical constructions
 Sriyantra - Nine
interwoven isosceles
triangles found by
Atharvaveda
 DO YOU KNOW WHO
INVENTED THE ZERO
ARYABHATTA
Actually the number zero was first
introduced in India around 628 BC in 5th
century
HOW DO THESE SYMBOLS
DISCOVERED ?
INVENTOR OF EQUAL SIGN

The equal sign was invented by the

mathematician Robert Recorde
REPEATED ADDITION
REPEATED SUBTRACTION
WHO IS THALES ?
A Greek mathematician Thales is credited
with giving the first known proof. This
proof was of the statement that the circle is
bisector by its diameter
 INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA
In golden age of Islam, Persians made first
look an Algebra.

Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi

Archimedes found the value of pie
Chinese invented negative numbers around 200
BCE
Do you how fraction are discovered ?
INVENTION OF FRACTION
✿ The Egyptians used Egyptian fractions c. 1000 BC.
✿ About 4000 years ago, Egyptians divided with fractions using slightly
different methods.
INVENTION OF RATIONAL NUMBERS
✿ Pythagoras is indeed an early Greek mathematician who has been best
known for inventing rational numbers.
✿ We may also state that any percentage is indeed a rational value if the
denominators, as well as numerators, seem to be integers and also the
denominator isn't really equivalent to zero.
INVENTION OF IRRATIONAL
NUMBERS
✿ The discovery of irrational numbers is usually attributed to Pythagoras,
more specifically to the Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who
produced a (most likely geometrical) proof of the irrationality of the √2