who,when,how discover math??

Question

I need the answer today...it's a part of my essay...

Answer 1

That's a pretty tough question to answer. What do you mean by 'discover Math'?

Even before humans knew how to count, they understood a one to one correspondence. In other words, if you dropped a rock in a bag for each sheep that left the gate in the morning, you could figure out if all the sheep came back in, even if you were incapable of discerning any number greater than 4 (that's the most objects a person can intuitively perceive before having to resort to counting). Understanding a one to one correspondence is pretty important math concept.

In fact, counting evolved from the concept of a one to one correspondence. If you can perceive groups of four, and you're making marks to keep track of things, it just makes sense to start organizing your marks in groups of four. You make a mark for each of the first four objects, make a slash through the marks for your fifth object. You repeat this until you have four sets of four marks with a slash through them (in fact, that's known as a 'score' of whatever you're counting). Next thing you know, you're identifying greater quantities than you can naturally perceive.

The Sumerians and Babylonians had a pretty sophisticated knowledge of math. Most of the concepts we credit the Greeks with were already known by the Babylonians before the Greeks learned them (Western civilizations evolved from Greek civilization, not Babylonian civilation, which is why we credit the Greeks). Algebra was invented by an Arab (Al jebr al muqaballah is it's whole name). Calculus was invented by Newton and Leibniz around the same time (Des Cartes's work in graphing functions really set the stage, so it was really just a matter of how many people could 'discover' calculus before someone could officially publish their work and take credit for it).

Answer 2

Probably the Sumerians. They needed to keep track of inventories - things like how many animals did they need to have in order to feed everybody.

More complex math - things like geometry was discovered by the Greeks.

Algebra slowly came together in the Middle Ages. The name comes from the name of an Arabic author of a math textbook.

Calculus was invented by Newton and Leibnitz at aroudn the same time in the 1700's. Today our calculus is closer to what Leibnitz came up with.

Answer 3

The evolution of mathematics might be seen to be an ever-increasing series of abstractions, or alternatively an expansion of subject matter. The first abstraction was probably that of numbers. The realization that two apples and two oranges have something in common, namely that they fill the hands of exactly one person, was a breakthrough in human thought. In addition to recognizing how to count physical objects, prehistoric peoples also recognized how to count abstract quantities, like time — days, seasons, years. Arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), naturally followed. Monolithic monuments testify to knowledge of geometry.

Answer 4

I am not sure what you mean exactly. Math has always been around in some form since ancient times. There was not a specific who or when. If you mean specific subjects in math like the formulation of algeba or calculus then you should look in the encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra

Answer 5

no one discovered math. math has always been around since who knows when. 1+1=2. cavemen could have figured that out. a caveman has four bananas and two kids. two bananas per kid. thats just obvious. thats basic math...the rest i dont know.