Mathematics+&+Science

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Ancient Greek Science
 The greeks had a cross of astronomy but ﬁgured out that the world needs a balance of things. The greeks after a long time ﬁgured out the world. They realized that one needs to organize the world and control chaos or else the world would cause mayhem and disrupt everything. In addition, at about 600 B.C. a group of greek men took the time to observe the planets and the sun. Shortly after that, they started to ﬁgure out how astronomy worked. They also got some help from the babylonians. Then in 200 B.C. roughly, Aristotleand other earlier philosophers met at the Lyceum in Athens. This is where they started to  organize plants and animals and give them types. Because of the greeks, astronomy is now one of the most developing theories or concepts today.

** Ancient Greek Math **  The greeks were one of the most sophisticated people ver in the mathematics world. One of their most  famous theorems, The Pythagorean theorem was one of the most useful theorems in the history of  mathematics. The pythagorean theorem equation was a squared + b squared = c squared. This equation  was commonly used for to create pyramids. In addition the greeks were extremely interested in rationality.  They wanted to prove or correct new mathematical ideas so they would seem more sophisticated and just  for practice because that was there passion. They also had some very famous philosophers/  Mathematicians. Such as: Pythagoras, Aristotle, Anaxgoras an  d more! Without these people mathematics  would not have not had the same potential to become popular and to be so useful.



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Ancient Indian Math
 In Indian mathematics, the ﬁrst numbers were created as were combinations of numbers. The ﬁrst known  numbers that went into affect in India was around 3,000 B.C, with the Harrappans. Overtime with these  newly developed “numbers”, they started to create grams and ounces and using “counting tokens” which  were equivalent to money today. With these newly developed numbers, everyone questioned what are  these? Then people started to explain that one can use them for counting equations just like the greeks  are doing and even more. Though there was a hardship along the way of learning these new  mathematics. After climate change caused the Harappan civilization to collapse, about 200 B.C., some <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> invading Indo-Europeans ruled india. Luckily this didnʼt stop the process of learning these new <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> mathematics. Furthermore, at about 1800 B.C., The Indians were discussing the idea of inﬁnity. They <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> thought to believe that inﬁnity was: If you remove any part of inﬁnity then add any part it is still inﬁnity. <span style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Basically, it was turned into a fraction of a circle.

Ancient Indian Science
Unlike Greek Science, the Indians were influenced by the persians. The city of Taxila became a great city where they went and built a center for Science. Atreya who was a great plant specialist, worked with the city of Taxila and helped decide different names for plants and more. By around 250 B.C., The Indians were the first people to smelt with iron and carbon to then create steel. Then at around 500 B.C. Arya Bhata wrote a book about astronomy and what he has learned over the years. The Indians were also the first people to create Iron beams instead of wooden beams which were used to create temples. Furthermore, they started to create different types of metal such as there new way of making steel. It was very strong and flexible. It was called "wootz steel."