Why was math invented?
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to make sure people like you don't get into college.\n\n---\n\nit's a nickname. my name could be GuitarBoy if I wanted, but I didn't, so there. and I was kidding. math wasn't "invented"; it was developed over many years.\n\nand yes, it is hard, I do alright in calculus, but it's still hard and it bugs me. I don't like it either.
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Why is this in Mathematics?
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The earliest known mathematics in ancient India dates back to circa 3000 BC during the Indus Valley Civilization. After its collapse in 1700 BC however, writing was absent in South Asia for a long period. There is considerable controversy regarding the dates when writing was re-developed in India and when the Brahmi script was developed.[10] Some scholars, such as Georg Bühler, date the Brahmi script as early as the 8th century BC, others from the Maurya dynasty in the 4th century BC. Recent archeological evidence dates it to 600 BC (see Brāhmī), while some scholars even suggest 1000 BC.[11] If the earlier dates are correct, it is possible that Pythagoras traveled to India and learnt mathematics there, as some have claimed (such as Florian Cajori). If the later date is correct, then Indian mathematics may have benefited from contact with Greece following the invasion of Alexander. It is also likely that the two mathematical traditions developed independently.\n\nAfter the Iron Age began, the progress of Indian mathematics has been fairly continuous until the 16th century AD, but it can be divided into roughly two periods of development. This section summarizes the period between 800 BC and 200 BC, when Indian mathematics wasn't studied for the sole purpose of science, but there are still advanced mathematics scattered throughout a large body of Indian texts from this period. Many of these however, are of uncertain date and authorship, and did not follow a serious mathematical tradition.\n\nThe Yajur-Veda composed by 900 BC, first explained the concept of numeric infinity. Yajnavalkya (circa 900-800 BC) computed the value of π to 2 decimal places. The Sulba Sutras (circa 800-600 BC) were geometry texts that first used irrational numbers, prime numbers, the rule of three, cube roots, computed the square root of 2 to five decimal places, gave the method of squaring the circle, solved linear equations and quadratic equations, discovered Pythagorean triples algebraically, and gave a numerical proof of the Pythagorean theorem.\n\nThe linguist Panini formulated the grammar rules for Sanskrit in the 5th century BC. His notation was similar to modern mathematical notation, and used metarules, transformations, and recursions with such sophistication that his grammar had the computing power equivalent to a Turing machine. Panini's work is also the forerunner to modern formal language theory (precursor to computing), while the Panini-Backus form used by most modern programming languages is also significantly similar to Panini's grammar rules. Pingala (4th-3rd century BC) invented the binary number system, Fibonacci series and Pascal's triangle, and also used a dot to denote zero and described the formation of a matrix. The works of Panini and Pingala were foundational to the development of computing.\n\nFrom 200 BC, mathematicians in India began studying mathematics for the sole purpose of science, starting with Jaina mathematicians between 200 BC and AD 200. They discovered transfinite numbers, set theory, logarithms, fundamental laws of indices, cubic equations, quartic equations, sequences and progressions, permutations and combinations, squaring and extracting square roots, and finite and infinite powers. Discoveries written in the Bakshali Manuscript include solutions of linear equations with upto five unknowns, the solution of the quadratic equation, arithmetic and geometric progressions, compound series, quadratic indeterminate equations, simultaneous equations, and the use of zero and negative numbers. Accurate computations for irrational numbers could be found, which includes computing square roots of numbers as large as a million to at least 11 decimal places.\n\nAryabhata in AD 499 introduced a number of trigonometric functions and trigonometric tables, techniques and algorithms of algebra, and obtained whole number solutions to linear equations by a method equivalent to the modern method, along with astrono
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Homework was invented for a number of reasons.  Some of the reasons include the following.\n\n1)  To practice skills that you have learned in school.\n2)  There are so many topics covered in school that you don't have the time to properly study them while in school, so you need the extra time of study.\n3)  To help a student learn time management skills.\n4)  To encourage students to practice and grow on their own. (Independent Study)\n5)  To let you show your teacher what you are learning, how well you are learning it, and to see where the teacher needs to concentrate their efforts in teaching.  (This is because year to year and class to class there are differences in what students may understand, so a teacher needs to be able to vary the emphasis of what they are teaching.\n\nThere are others, but I have provided a few other than what some people said about it being just to torture students.  Teachers aren't sadists, they are actually the opposite.  Teachers like to help people.
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the concept of Zero was invented by Aryabhatt an indian mathematician who devised the number system. He used the word 'kha' for position and it would be used later as the name for zero. There is evidence that a dot had been used in earlier Indian manuscripts to denote an empty place in positional notation.\n\nu can find this information in any indian mathematics book and all indian knoe about this...\n\nu dont need to search any more..enjoy..
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The history of maths or on a famous mathematician.
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That's an interesting question. But the answer may seem a bit weird at first. I suggest you read the answer carefully.\n\nThe world has invented the number system. \nIn olden days, the arabians and egyptians used numbers from 1 to 9. But the theory of negative numbers came only after a brilliant Indian Mathematician ARYABHATTA devised the number zero as the king of all numbers. Zero is undoutedly the most important and the backbone of maths and the number system.\nThe number system was extended on both sides of zero around the 1800s to 1900s to form nearly more than 100 numbers on each side. With time, the number system has advanced and now we know that its limitless.\nEverything that is made around us has many helping hands. Always remember that my friend. Keeping asking such provoking questions. They will shape you into a good character.
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It it considered that the first proposal of using symboll "pi"  as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was firstly appeared in the works of William Jones. But he was  a Welsh mathematician, not Swiss.\n\nFrom section "History of the notation" of first attached wiki article:\nThe symbol "π" for Archimedes' constant was first introduced in 1706 by William Jones when he published A New Introduction to Mathematics, although the same symbol had been used earlier to indicate the circumference of a circle. The notation became standard after it was adopted by Leonhard Euler.
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Don't overlook the fact that numbers are entirely an artifice.  Mathematics is not a 'natural' science, such as physics.  It is a contrivance, a tool used to understand the physical world.
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Your friend is right. Algebra originates from the ancient Babylonians of Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), with later developments being contributed by Indian, Japanese, and Chinese mathematicians.\n\nHere's an excerpt from the Wikipedia article (see the link below for the full article):\n\nThe word algebra comes from the Arabic word "al-jabr" from the title of the book al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala, meaning The book of Summary Concerning Calculating by Transposition and Reduction, a book written by Persian Muslim mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī in 820. The word al-jabr means "reunion". Al-Khwarizmi is often considered the "father of algebra" (though that title is also given to Diophantus), as much of his works on reduction are still in use today. Another Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam developed algebraic geometry and found the general geometric solution of the cubic equation. Indian mathematician Bhaskara and Chinese mathematician Zhu Shijie solved cubic, quartic (biquadratic) and higher-order polynomial equations.
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My opinion:\nMathematics, as a formal system, is invented in the sense that one starts\nwith a certain set of elements (usually numbers, but not necessarily so) and\ndefines a set of rules regarding various relationships between, and\noperations of, those elements. And you can invent any rules of the game you\ndesire.\n\nMathematics, as a discipline, may be quite a different process. One may\nperceive a certain pattern, regularity, or whatever word you might want to\ndescribe some insight (usually regarding numbers, but not necessarily so)\nand try to "explain" that insight. This process may be quite circuitous, and\n"illogical".\nThere are any number of observations (conjectures) in mathematics that are\nput forward without any proof. Perhaps "Fermat's Last Theorem" is the most\nfamous, but by no means the only, example of something that was found to be\nempirically true for a long time before it was proven in a formal sense.  If\nyou read any of the popular histories of numbers like 'pi' , 'e' , or 'i' it\nwill be clear that there is much more discovery than invention.
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Algebra and all the Maths that one learns at school and college are tools which are ultimately used by Scientists, engineers, doctors, and almost all the people who have something to do with science. Even social scientists like historians and sociologists use it. \n\nIt may seem abstract but Maths is the underlying machinery of the Universe.
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Aryabhatta.... he invented "0"... without which we would not know maths or physics as it is today... and oh yeah... the computers would not be there without the 0s and 1s.
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Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the academic discipline that deals with such concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change. It evolved, through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, from counting, calculation, measurement, and the study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.[1]\n\nKnowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life. Refinements of the basic ideas are visible in ancient mathematical texts originating in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and ancient India, with increased rigour later introduced by the ancient Greeks. From this point on, the development continued in short bursts until the Renaissance period of the 16th century where mathematical innovations interacted with new scientific discoveries leading to an acceleration in understanding that continues to the present day.[2]\n\nToday, mathematics is used throughout the world in many fields, including science, engineering, medicine and economics. The application of mathematics to such fields, often dubbed applied mathematics, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and has sometimes led to the development of entirely new disciplines. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics for its own sake without having any practical application in mind, although applications for what begins as pure mathematics are often discovered later on
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well i am going to relate this to music, why are there so many different types of instruments, they all make a different sound, all of the different types of mathematics have different purposes.  Geometry begins to define properties of the world around us, Algebra begins to get us used to workign with variables and the unknown.  Calculus is used to interpret the world around us.  There are many other types too, examples are statistics, they can be anything from sports highlights, what we need to do to fix an intersection to decrease traffic backup.  This is a very brief explaination, but i hope it helps!
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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. It is also the handmaiden of the sciences. Every scientific and engineering feat depends upon that subject. That is why it is so important.
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I've taught maths to a child!\n\nIts easy.....maths comes in everywhere. From measuring to money todistance to time! Its harder to make up a story without using maths!