A Historical View of Egyptian’s Mathematics System

Moua 1 Vee Moua Math 101-Term Paper Dr. Olimb A Historical View of Egyptian’s Mathematics System In historic times; math was well known for helping Egyptian people keep track of their property, money, taxes, livestock, land and sometimes people. Math did indeed help the Egyptian community and their king by building pyramids, tombs, art crafts, and using math to solve the flood on Nile Valley. Egypt was striving for a new era to come along with their mathematical achievement. As history has it, Egypt was the land of lands and great art with their high pyramids. During the year 3000 BC when two nations decides to come in one nation so that the nation of Egypt can be under one king. Since Egypt has become under one nation; the land and it’s’†¦show more content†¦As Egypt grows into a great land of arts and crafts so did their knowledge of math grew as they find ways to count, solve problems, and every day use of math. Ever since then Egyptians quickly develop their own use of math skills and numbers to use. Meanwhile Egypt already has their own writing system, they quickly convert into the numeral system which is called Egyptian Numerals (O΄Connor and Robertson, 2000). Egyptians were very careful because mathematics required them to deal the form of fractions. â€Å"In ancient Egypt mathematics was used for measuring time, straight lines, the level of the Nile floodings, calculating areas of land, counting money, working out taxe s and cooking. Math was even used in mythology - the Egyptians figured out the numbers of days in the year with their calendar† (Seawright, 2013). It is true that Nile Valley flooded yearly. As Stevenson, 2000 wrote Nile is the longest river and flows from three branches: â€Å"The Blue Nile, the White Nile and the Atbara. They join far south of Egypt to become a single river a mile wide† (Stevenson, 2000). The Egypt king want to learn when the flood will start, therefore; he order to find someone who works with geography and use their knowledge of math to help solve or get close to when the Nile river will flood. The king hopes that if he could get close to the dates and time of theShow MoreRelatedAncient Egyptian Life2317 Words   |  10 Pagesfor â€Å"religion†. The gods were tied to all activities in daily life, and no Egyptian citizen believed that the gods were fallible. While there generally were slight differences with how the gods interacted with the w orld, most citizens had the same views. There were the chief deities, Horus and Amon-Re, and then there were gods of specific aspects of life. An important god is Osiris, god of the afterlife. The afterlife was an essential part of the Egyptian society, and embalming a dead body was a