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Where did math come from?

Updated: 10/26/2022
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7y ago

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Math mostly came from Greece.

Nobody is certain, but Mathematics may have been created even before the first words were spoken by humans. For example, our ancestors surely encountered some of the following problems:

  • Hunger
  • An attack by wild beasts
  • Aggression by another group

Our ancestors may have used some Logic to determine the best place to find food and satisfy their hunger. They could have applied Math Theory (applied mathematics) to determine if they had enough rocks to repel the attacking beasts. And they could have used both Logic and Applied Math to determine if it was best to stand and fight or run from an aggressive group of neighbors. If you think through these situations yourself you will realize that you can determine a course of action or reach a decision without speaking one single word! Congratulations! You just heard the first whispers of the Language of Mathematics in your head!

The ability of humans to communicate through language, and their enhanced artistic creativity and dexterity with tools, led to the invention of writing systems. First they were to record sounds, and words, and to symbolize objects, yet eventually more complex thoughts such as mathematical logic were symbolized. It is this ability to communicate math through its written language that makes it so useful.

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Math came from the fact that humans like to count things and figure out how everything works together, so we invented math to help us with that.

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