Math in the Orient

            The era of math started during the Egyptians and Babylonians yet the enrichment and the upbringing of math didn’t speed up until its time in the Orient. We start in ancient China wherein math started to answer much more complicated and unusual problems. Currency was now a norm in purchasing various items like food, raw materials, land and the like. The problem now is on how to price anything from fruits, animals or even raw materials. They had the weights and scales they needed to solve the problem. What they were doing to solve the problem was through elimination method to deduce the possible weight of one item form another to price it accordingly. One unusual problem was about the emperor wherein he had to sleep with 121 women in 15 days so his advisers needed to find a way that he could do such an act. After all the problems in China then came India. The math of India was molded by its religion which is Hinduism wherein they believe in nothingness so they had to express that numerically and thus the birth of the number zero. They didn’t stop there they also included the birth of negative integers which was derived from the idea of debt. The Indian civilization also started to solve the exact value of pi and they also gave a near exact distance of the sun. From India we proceed to the Middle East. In modern times we would still use roman numerals if it weren’t for the Hindus and Arabs due to the number system we use today. They also introduced the idea of algebra. Asia was the center of modern math years before the west would get this information on math and to learn a new number system.