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The oldest mathematics text discovered so far is the Moscow papyrus, which is an Egyptian Middle Kingdom papyrus dated circa 2050 BC - 1800 BC. Like many ancient mathematical texts, it consists of what are today called "word problems" or "story problems", which were apparently intended as entertainment. One problem is considered to be of particular importance because it gives a method for finding the volume of a pyramid: "If you are told: A truncated pyramid of 6 for the vertical height by 4 on the base by 2 on the top. You are to square thi ...

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The earliest known mathematics in ancient India dates back to 3000 BC with the Indus Valley civilization. After its collapse in 1700 BC however, writing was absent in South Asia for a long period. There is considerable controversy regarding the dates when writing was re-developed in India and when the Brahmi script was developed.[5] Some scholars, such as Georg Bühler, date the Brahmi script as early as the 8th century BC, others from the Maurya dynasty in the 4th century BC. Some evidence dates it to 600 BC (see Brāhmī), while some schol ...

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Long before the earliest written records, there are drawings that indicate a knowledge of mathematics and of measurement of time based on the stars. For example, paleontologists have discovered ochre rocks in a cave in South Africa adorned with scratched geometric patterns dating back more than 70,000 years [1]. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35000 BC and 20000 BC, indicate early attempts to quantify time Evidence exists that early counting involved women who kept records of their monthly biological ...

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There is considerable controversy about the dates of Indian writing during the historical period (that is, writing more recent than that of the Indus Valley Civilization) (see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/position/salomon.html). Some scholars, such as Georg Bühler, date Indian writing as early as the 8th century BC, others from the Maurya dynasty in the 4th century BC. If the earlier date is correct, it is possible that Pythagoras traveled to India and learned mathematics there, as some claim. If the later date is correct, then Indian math ...

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The Maya calendar utilized a base-20 number system which included the 'number' zero (also see Maya numerals). In China, Zu Chongzhi (5th century) of the Southern and Northern Dynasties was the first person to calculate the value of Pi to seven decimal places. The Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet Plimpton 232 records a number of Pythagorean triplets (3,4,5) (5,12,13). ..., dated 1900 BC, possi ...

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In Europe at the dawn of the Renaissance, most of what is now called school mathematics -- addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and geometry -- was known to educated people, though the notation was cumbersome: Roman numerals and words were used, but no symbols: no plus sign, no equal sign, no zero, and no use of x as an unknown. Almost all of the mathematics now taught in college had yet to be d ...

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The Ionic School of Ionia was the earliest of the schools of philosophy in Greece. Founded by Thales of Miletus around 600 BC, the prominent members of the Ionic school were natives of Ionia, one and all of whom traced the beginning or basis of things back to the action of some physical agent, such as water, air, fire, or earth. Some of the most famous members of the school we ...

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700 (seven hundred) is the natural number following 699（six hundred ninety-nine） and preceding 701（seven hundred one）. << 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 >> It is the sum of four consecutive primes (167 + 173 + 179 + 181). It is a Harshad number. 700 is also: The year AD, see 700. The decade beginning in the year 700 BC, see 700s BC. A television show aired on the Christian ...

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Apastamba (c. 600 BC), was an Indian priest/scholar associated with the black Yajur Veda (the others being Baudhayana, Vaikhanasa, Satyasadha, Bharadhvaja and Agnivesa). His Kalpasutra is an important part of the Hindu canon. It is divided into thirty chapters. The first 24 are about the performance of the Srauta sacrifices (Srautasutra). The 26th chapter is on the Grihya rites (Grihyasutra). The thirtieth is about geometry of altar construction (Sulbasutra). One of the most notable facts found in this Sulbasutra is an approximation o

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