Essay On Egyptian Mathematics

Egyptian mathematics developed and effected to the main history of mathematic through years. In Egyptian math mainly people’s used art ( symbols, lines etc.) to express the numbers. Egyptian math started with numbers and continued developing with found of equations,fractions etc. These developments affected to modern mathematics a lot that we used today.Modern mathematics comes from the combination of different regions mathematic that they found out through the years by different system.For an example, Greek mathematics and Egyptian mathematics.When they combined with each other they found out different informations about the same topics that they worked on.That’s why Egyptian mathematic is important to us an to whole mathematic history.

In Ancient Egypt math history there were 5 main feature that proves us that it’s different from other math histories (example:Greek’s math history).They were:

They gave a symbol to each number by Hieroglyph language. For an example, 2 equals to 2 straight line in Hieroglyphic number system.They used these symbols to calculate the Nile River’s water level, taxes,money,time and even in cooking.Also they had a decimal system which you can show decimal numbers by seven different symbol.For an example, they used reverse “U” to express the number 10 or by the symbols name “ Drawing of a hobble for cattle” in their decimal system. If you write a big number like 23,546 you have to use every numbers symbol.(You have to start with 2 lines that equals to 2,than 3 lines and to continue you have to write each numbers symbol by Hieroglyphic number system.Also while writing these kind of numbers, you have to write the biggest number first. In 23,546 number 2 is the biggest number because it equals to