01 history of numbers and numerals
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This document provides a brief history of mathematics and numbers. It discusses some early milestones in the use of numbers, such as bones used by Paleolithic peoples to record numbers around 50000-8000 BCE and the first symbols used in ancient Egypt. It also explains the differences between numbers and numerals, and how the Hindu-Arabic numeral system became dominant worldwide due to its introduction to Europe via the Arabic people in the Middle East. Examples are given of various ancient and modern numerical symbol sets from cultures like Egypt, Babylon, Rome, India, Arabic, and Asia.
01 history of numbers and numerals
- 1. A Brief History of Mathematics Department ura ittaya arn School Addition Mathematics (Ma2120…) Mathayam 1 (IEP)
- 2. Milestone -50000 -8000 -3400 -876 -230 -100 Paleolithic peoples in central Europe and France record numbers on bones. The first symbols for numbers are used in Egypt. Eratosthenes develops his sieve method for finding all prime numbers.
- 3. How many squares below? Number and Numeral We use word ‘four’ and use notation ‘4’ to represent them. In Thai, we use word ‘สอง’ and use notation ‘๔’ to represent them.
- 4. Difference? What is the difference between ‘number’ and ‘numeral’?
- 5. Nowadays 1 25 392 45 2,586 48,959 Hundu-Arabic numeralWhat do we call?
- 6. Various symbol sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Latin script ० १ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९ Devanagari ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ Arabic ០ ១ ២៣៤ ៥ ៦ ៧ ៨ ៩ Khmer ๐ ๑ ๒ ๓ ๔ ๕ ๖ ๗ ๘ ๙ Thai ໐ ໑ ໒ ໓ ໔ ໕ ໖ ໗ ໘ ໙ Lao
- 7. Because… 1 39 459 48,959 0 It was formed by Hindu or, now, Indian. It was presented in Europe by Arabic, people in middle east Asia. 2,586 25
- 10. Roman Numeral