Episode 1 story of maths

The Language of the Universe

                 The story is a little bit boring but I enjoy it. It lessen my curiosity about how the mathematics had started. It discussed first the Egyptian. The Egyptian mathematics was developed because they needed to improve there way of living. They didn't take mathematics seriously instead they just treated mathematics as a one of the tools to perform a certain rule. An example of an application of mathematics in their lives was measuring the area of lands for farming using a hand (metre).

               In today's mathematics, these applications still exist. I also learned in the movie about their number system and their used of the 3'4'5 triangle in measuring and in building architectures (e.g. Great Pyramid). The Egyptian lives were simple, living with the simple mathematics they had known while in the Babylonians, they learned to use the BASE 60 in their number system. That was another mathematical applications that had a great contributions to the modern maths. Everything that were discovered by the Egypt and Babylonians were analyzed by the Greek. In their times, the Pythagorian Theorem arrived and the properties of the right triangle were studied.

             It was a great revolution of mathematics during that time and the dawn of the confusions of numbers had come. The movie tells us an interesting story about how mathematics existed during the ancient times. It tells us how mathematics started and how it changes as time passed by.