History of Mathematics

Begins with arithmetic, protoalgebra, and geometry of the people of the fertile crescent (the Mesopotamians), the people of the valley of the Nile River (the Egyptians), and the early civilization on Crete (the Minoans), who were the forerunners of the Mycenaean Greeks and the classical ancient Greeks. Studies the people of the middle and lower Yellow River (the Chinese) and the people of the area near the Indus River valley (the Indians). The roots of the above cultures seem to have begun about 4,000 years ago. Building upon the discoveries and creations of these five ancient cultures, the inheritors of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Hellenistic Greeks and the Islamic societies, made great strides in advancing mathematics. Renaissance Italy built upon this mathematical edifice.

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