4. The History of Mathematics

Sometimes I feel learning mathematics will be incomplete without studying its own history. Mathematics has started since 5000 years ago from the beginning of learning in counting number where the number systems and symbols were created to indicate the number of objects. 

 

Mathematics has developed from the civilizations in Egypt (1650 b.c) and our knowledge of mathematics from Egypt was believed to comes from Rhind Papyrus and Moscow Papyrus. This is also an era where the beginning of problems like rational numbers, approximating the area of circle, and finding the quadratic equations.

Then mathematics started to advance in other civilizations as well and most mathematicians continuously sacrificed their time to contribute some knowledge by solving many hard and difficult problems. Famous problems in mathematics involve squaring the circle, measurement of Earth, estimating the value of pi, and last but not least Fibonacci and Pythagorean problem.

Mathematics has been developed so far today because our dedicated mathematicians like Euclid, Diophantus, Fibonacci, Newton, Bernoulli, Laplace Fermat, Euler, Gauss and many more committed their life in mathematics.

All these were honored in their generations, and
were the glory of their names.
There be of them, that have left a name behind
them, that their praises might be reported.
And some there be, which have no memorial; who
are perished, as though they had never been born; and
their children after them.
ECCESIASTICUS 44:7-9 

And me myself hope to contribute some knowledge in mathematics one day too.