who is the inventor or founder of mathematics?

Answer 1

No-one. Maths starts with counting objects, which was developed all over the world independantly. Some races learnd the calendar, the measurement of distance, time and angles then it all got really complicated from there. The Arabs discovered Zero (Very important) and other people discovered irrational numbers (square root of minus 1) and transcendental numbers (Pi, Phi etc). Newton invented calculus and lots of other people chipped in wih methods and ideas. The whole subject is growing all the time as we try to understand how the world works and what it all means.

Answer 2

Euclid's got my vote:
Euclid of Alexandria
Born: about 365 BC in Alexandria, Egypt
Died: about 300 BC

Euclid is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity; best known for his treatise on geometry, "The Elements". The long lasting nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading mathematics
teacher of all time.

Little is known of Euclid's life except that he taught at Alexandria in Egypt.

Euclid's most famous work is his treatise on geometry, "The Elements". The book was a compilation of geometrical knowledge that became the
center of mathematical teaching for 2000 years. Probably no results in The Elements were first proved by Euclid but the organisation of the material and its exposition are certainly credited to him.

The Elements begins with definitions and axioms, including the famous fifth or parallel postulate that one and only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to a given line. Euclid's decision to make
this an axiom led to Euclidean geometry. It was not until the 19th century that this axiom was dropped and non-euclidean geometries were studied.

Zeno of Sidon, about 250 years after Euclid wrote The Elements, seems to have been the first to show that Euclid's propositions were not deduced from the axioms alone, and Euclid does make other subtle
assumptions.

The Elements is divided into 13 books: Books 1-6, plane geometry; books 7-9, number theory; book 10, Eudoxus's theory of irrational numbers; books 11-13, solid geometry. The book ends with a discussion
of the properties of the five regular polyhedra and a proof that there are precisely five. Euclid's Elements is remarkable for the clarity with which the theorems are stated and proved. The standard of rigour was to become a goal for the inventors of calculus centuries later.

More than one thousand editions of The Elements have been published since it was first printed in 1482.

Euclid also wrote Data (with 94 propositions), On Divisions, Optics and Phaenomena which have survived. His other books, Surface Loci,
Porisms, Conics, Book of Fallacies and Elements of Music, have all been lost.

Euclid may not have been a first class mathematician but the long lasting nature of The Elements must make him the leading mathematics teacher of antiquity.

Answer 3

The actual written history of Mathematics began with the Ionian Greeks. But their knowledge and understanding is attributed to the Egyptians &Phoenicians


Thales 600. BC
Eudemus (A pupil of Aristotle.) 325 BC
Proclus 450 AD

Answer 4

No one civilisation. The Ancient Greeks are famous for their approach to mathematics. I am sure you have heard of Euclid, Pythagoras and Archimedes. But even they cannot claim to have "invented" maths as they built on the work earlier Babylonian scholars.

In the New World the entire Inca civilisation was built on mathematics. The Incas did not have a written language, so everything was organised by numbers. To be literate was to be numerate!

Answer 5

It is possible that mathematics evolved rather than appearing after a defining `eureka` moment. I imagine early man shared out the berries equally, just as infants do when told to share out sweets fairly. Not to take anything away from Greece, Egypt India,China, and many other contributors who introduced marked advances to the still evolving world of mathematics.

Answer 6

The first counting system that we know of came from Summerian clay tablets. Although the Greeks did a lot of good work, even they admitted that the Egyptians were better than they were. However, every civilization will have discovered or added to the pool of mathematical knowlege. So who invented maths? We all did.

Answer 7

Early man started counting. The Egyptians invented a sort of geometry so they could reclaim their fields after the Nile flooded each year - reclaim as in lay out what was mine and what was yours, not rebuild. The Nile put a layer of mud over everything.

The Greeks refined Geometry; Euclid was one of the leaders there. A Frenchman formalized Algebra from the Arabs, but I have forgotten his name. Another invented Trigonometry. Isaac Newton invented calculus. Napier invented logarithms.

Answer 8

As others said, no single person invented mathematics. Still, if we had to look for the first famous mathematician, it is definitely the Greek Pythagoras, "the father of numbers". He is a semi-legendary figure, who combined science, philosophy and religion.

Answer 9

impossible to give A name but 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.

Answer 10

Nobody significantly. It has been created by lots of people and more stuff has been added through history.
Read all about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics