It brings clearly to life such basic mathematical concepts as how the decimal system works, the measurement of angles, how equations are solved, how and why speed against time can be measured on a graph. It ends with a picture of the role this science plays in the technical marvels of today.Īll this makes an exciting story: but it does more than that. Our story takes us into a wonderful world where such geniuses as Galileo, Descartes and Newton established the foundations of modern mathematics. Astronomers, merchants, priests and sailors from many parts of the world contributed to the ever growing science. Through trade, travel and conquest, there was a gradual interchange of knowledge among widely differing civilizations. As he extended the scope of his building, surveying, navigating, he added to his store of mathematical ideas. Slowly through the ages he learned to measure and to count, to multiply and to divide. His first "written" record was a notch on a tree or a stroke on a stone to mark the passage of days. Man first began to count by putting down one pebble for one animal or thing, two pebbles for two things and beyond three any quantity was just "a heap". This dramatic presentation shows how the growth and development of civilization is also the story of the growth and development of mathematics as a science.
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