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Mathematics originated with ancient peoples discoveries of agriculture, construction and astronomy. These fields required advanced mathematical concepts.
it is a ancient Greek word meaning the science of counting
For younger students this trick provides a motivation to learn to mentally divide by four and subtract four. The division will never involve remainders so it should be within the grasp of most students. Older students can be encouraged to e...
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This is an interesting question, almost philosophical in it's nature. Physics, in everyday terms, is the science of matter and its motion. This is not strictly mathematical, but the laws that govern these subjects are. Physics relies on mat...
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Vedic mathematics began in the early Iron Age, with the Shatapatha Brahmana (c. 9th century BC), which approximates the value of π to 2 decimal places and the Sulba Sutras (c. 800-500 BC) were geometry texts that used irrational nu...
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I know that Georg Cantor invented it. I meant in my question to inquire why he chose the Hebrew letter Aleph, as I know that most mathematical marks are in Greek. Read Hebrew
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Math history books do not provide a lot of information about maths from the African continent. Though references have been made to the fact that the study of mathematics had its origins in Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, often people ignore th...
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It is a mathematical theory about how matter is created in the formless void of space.
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CM.4 Explain relationships among different representations of a problem
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The use of the term "spectrum" to denote the prime ideals of a ring originates from the case that the ring is, say, $\mathbb{C}[T]$ where $T$ is a linear operator on a finite-dimensional vector space; then the prime spectrum (whic...
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