Jessica
History of Mathematics
We all herd Isaac Newtons work in physics but rarely people knew about his effort in math.
The math work of Isaac Newton’s is best seen in his early years.
1661, at Trinity College in Cambridge, while taking notes down Newton learned about advanced ideas quickly.
1665, because of the black death, Newtons school has closed dow, so he went home and worked alone, which became his most productive time.
During this period, he developed the method of fluxions, an early form of calculus used for rates of change, tangents, max&min points, and areas under curves.
He also improved work on series and expanded the binomial theorem so (1+x)^n works even when n isn’t a whole number.
Maths history had begun in very long time ago because people always needed ways to count and measure things in real life.
Even early humans had to keep track of food, animals, and trading items. They didn’t have “school math” yet, but they still used basic math ideas. For example, they could mark lines on sticks or carve marks on stones to show how many things they had.
This helped them stay organized and not lose track of important supplies.As the populations of people is growing, math also started to get more useful. In counties like ancient Egypt, math was needed for farming, building, and gaining taxes. People needed to measure their lands, especially after floods changed the land.
They also needed to count storage and make sure trades was fair. Because of these problems, they created number systems and early ways to do adding, subtracting, and multiplying. Geometry is highly related to architecture, people before used goemetry for building temples.
Later, the ancient Greeks focused on thinking and proving evidences. Instead of only doing math for an answer, they wanted to explain why the answer made sence. This is why they cared more about logic and proofs.
Geometry is a big part of their math at that time, they studied triangles, circles, and angles in a organized way. Proofs was important for people because they needed to know how they should do to get to the answer.
Math was developing in many places around earth. Different cultures developed different ideas,such as algebras, astronomy math, and better measurements. People also started using new symbols and better writing methods, which made math easier to share and learn. Over many centuries, math became kind of like a language of numbers, to different culture peoples they could still understand the numbers and symbols.
Calculus was made to help studying during the 1600s. This was a important because it helped science and engineering to move forward faster. After that, math kept expanding into statistics and probability, which helped people understand chance and data in a more clear way.
Today, math is still strongly relevant to economics, science, and even everyday life. When poeple runs into a math problem math starts to develop, this is why maths history keep on growing.
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