Mathematics

Mathematics in Greece developed during 600 B.C. - 250 B.C. The mathematicians in Greece lived on the eastern side of the Meditteranean Sea. The first woman mathematician was a woman named Hypatia who taught mathematics and astronomy. She was born between the dates of A.D 350 and A.D 370 in Alexandria, Egypt. Hypatia belonged to the Academy of Athens. She died on A.D 415 when a christian mob accused her of religious turmoil. Another great mathematician was a man named Euclid.He was one of the most famous math scholars and was born on 300 B.C. There, he lived and taught in Alexandria, Egypt. Euclid was the one who created the rules of algebra. Also what we study in school about flat shapes and lines is called Euclidian Geometry.

Greeks invented these shapes since Pythagoras discovered it by using ropes to make triangles and to measure the sides.Pythagoras got this idea when he saw Neferheperhersekeper rope that looked like a triangle.Pythagoras was the first to establish geometry. Then there was a man named Syracuse who worked on solid geometry. Solid geometry is like the study of shape like spheres,tube and cylinders. Plane geometry is the branch of mathematics. They show how points,lines,angles,and surfaces are related to one another.In Greece,

Mathematicians like Euclid used abacuses for math. Abucuses could count from 1-100,and was like the ancient calculator. An abacus was a way to add in Greece. An abacus was merely pebbles on a metal pad. Also in Ancient Greece they used animal looking tokens as a thank you for the cures that have been given to them.The tokens resembled animals and how animals could be cured like humans.The Greeks needed math for them to measure and find the length of a pillars.

The Greeks used a symbol called Pi.Pi was a long set of numbers that was shorten to 3.14.Pi is used to find the Area and Circumference of a circle.