please please please please please please with my thesis i dont get it at all?

Question

my essay is about greek mathematics
my thesis has to be on the whole thing not just a certain segment of it
this is as far as i got
without the greek mathmatics, science, architechture, and modern math wouldnt have evolved like it did in the past
i know this isnt a thesis but i cant really think of a way to make it into a thesis
please please please please please please please please
i really need help on this

Answer 1

Perhaps you want to formulate a thesis which glorifies Greek mathematicians.
"without the greek mathmatics, science, architechture, and modern math wouldnt have evolved like it did in the past"
is good for your thesis. Now you could give examples after examples of what the Greek math did and how it influences modern science.
Also give a counter example of if there were no Greek math, then we would've invented Geometry after the dark ages (12ad), and thus had slowed down our progress of science.

The most important thing is getting your sources. For the examples cite all of your sources.
Use this wiki link to get a general idea of Creek math. But use scholorarly articles as sources.

Answer 2

A 'thesis' is essentially a question (a hypothesis), followed by the evidence and logic to answer the question.

So, your thesis might be: "Was the development of Greek Mathematics necessary for the development of modern science, math, and architecture?"

Then,

1) describe what the developments in Greek Math actually were,

2) explain how these math developments were needed for modern science, math and architecture, and

3) conclude (based on the presented evidence) that Greek Math was necessary for these modern systems!

Best wishes and good luck.

Answer 3

You can argue that ancient Greeks laid the foundation to modern mathematics and thus to modern science. For example, Euclid's Elements is the first book ever written that would be considered math from today's mathematicians as well. It was in this book that the axiomatized treatment of a mathematical was introduced for the very first time and a very comprehensive and completely rigorous treatise of planar geometry was given. Moreover, Newton and Leibniz were inspired by the work of Archimedes when developing infinitesimal calculus. Archimedes was for example the first one to use the idea of approximation of a volume by the volume of many small rectangles, which is the main idea behind integration. Then calculus was extensively used by Newton to develop the classical mechanics and then apply them to study the motion of the planets etc in his epic book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

If you search in the internet, you will find more information you could use.

Answer 4

Geometry developed because philosophers during the Hellenic age started do investigate what were called perfect shapes and golden proportions. The math was originally coincidental to the philosophy. Our current number system did not come until it was imported from India at a much later time. Unless your teacher assigned the topic you should probably pick a new one.
the attached site will give you some idea of the problem.
If the teacher did assign the topic ask for a clarification.

Answer 5

Take it easy pal. I think it would be interesting to find out what the Greeks figured out that hadn't been understood before, what trends in mathematics good or bad they started, how their work effected their contemporaries and how it effects generations far in the future. What mistakes they made if any and whether those failures altered history. Were any of their accomplishments to have an immediate effect on the state of Greece?