I'd going a comepare and contrast essay and I need to know the similarities in math and history. Thanks in advance, any information is helpful.
2007-01-09 16:41:50 · 4 answers · asked by tehmonkii 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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financial history. .
2007-01-09 16:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William, first you should seriously look at your grammar and spelling. Writing an essay requires both. To answer your question, think about how history works. It's not just an event. History is a series of events all interwined and leading up to something. It (they) can be drawn out on a line. So too can math equation. The more complex problems are not isolated problems, but require a number of steps to arrive at you final answer. Those steps can be written in sequence, as if it were a number line. Does this make any sense to you? I apologize if I did not explain it well, I'm tired, it's been a long day. Best of luck!
2007-01-09 16:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, no, no!!! They're entirely different things. Math is the study of the quantifiable; when you reach a conclusion in mathematics, you can prove that it's right; there are no external factors that can't be accounted for.
History is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. We have no absolute fact, just a bunch of subjective accounts. We can't prove anything. Nothing's exact. We assume, interpret, reconstruct, infer because we'd really, really like to know how or why or if something happened, but we can't actually get an honest-to-God answer.
Math is left brain, history is right.
Math is based on the logical, learnable, understandable relationships between numbers; history is based on the random, irrational, unfathomable patterns of human behavior.
You can contrast, baby, but you can't compare.
2007-01-09 17:14:36 · answer #3 · answered by GoFish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History is to the humanities as math is to the sciences.
2007-01-09 18:41:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋