who is the father of maths????????????????????????????????????....?

Question

a very big problem to meeeeeee

Answer 1

Euclid

Answer 2

Hello,

There will be many opinions about this question! A lot of people
would go for the co-inventors of Calculus, Newton and Leibniz, but I
have the utmost respect for Euclid because of the long-lasting deep
effect of his mind not only on math but also on the development of
human thought over thousands of years.

I will attach a summary I found on the Internet that captures pretty
well why mathematicians are so impressed by this "father" from so
long ago.

I hope this helps. Write again if you have more questions.

SUMMARY:

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
centre 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

History of Mathematics
The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the origin of new discoveries in mathematics, to a lesser extent an investigation into the standard mathematical methods and notation of the past.

Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales. The most ancient mathematical texts available are Plimpton 322 (Babylonian mathematics ca. 1900 BC), the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus (Egyptian mathematics ca. 1850 BC), the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (Egyptian mathematics ca. 1650 BC), and the Shulba Sutras (Indian mathematics ca. 800 BC). All of these texts concern the so-called Pythagorean theorem, which seems to be the most ancient and widespread mathematical development after basic arithmetic and geometry.

Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics were then further developed in Greek and Hellenistic mathematics, which is generally considered to be one of the most important in classical antiquity, for greatly expanding both the method and the subject matter of mathematics. The mathematics developed in these ancient civilizations were then further developed and greatly expanded in Arabic and Islamic mathematics. Many Greek and Arabic texts on mathematics were then translated into Latin in medieval Europe and further developed there.

One striking feature of the history of ancient and medieval mathematics is that bursts of mathematical development were often followed by centuries of stagnation. Beginning in Renaissance Italy in the 16th century, new mathematical developments, interacting with new scientific discoveries, were made at an ever increasing pace, and this continues to the present day.

Answer 4

mathematics doesn't have a father, because it's origin are lost in the mist of millennia. Already caves men used math to some extent, so there are no chances to find a name for the first one.

There are some fields of mathematics where the "father" is known, like Newton and Leibnitz for calculus. Other field have a sort of godfather, like Euclid for geometry.

Answer 5

Think about this:

In the Bible it tells us that God created the heavens and the Earth.

Noah built an ark before the GREAT FLOOD.

Noah needed to know math to built an ark.

The Bible tells us that God gave Noah the precise measurements for the ark.

Conclusion?

God is the creator of math, physics and everything that has to do with numbers and everything else.

He then passed that knowledge down to us through each generation.

Answer 6

Euclid

Answer 7

Academies

Answer 8

Many are considered as Father of Mathematics... becos each has developed different form of maths independently( like algebra, Geometry, calculus etc..)

Pls refer this link :

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

Answer 9

I vote for Euclid because I read once that the only book read more than his "Elements" is the Bible. Also no one was forced to read his book.

Answer 10

He was Karl Francis - if that is the way his first name was spelt. Do you wonder why the heck he created maths? What was he thinking!!