The Story of Math: The Genius of the East

    Marcus Du Sautoy explored the hidden mathematics of the East and visited China and know how the math helped to build amazing engineering of the great wall of China. The China doesnt had the place value and no representation of zero. They believe that mathematician were important. Du Sautoy discovered the magic square of China. He described both the use of math of China in engineering projects and their belief of the mystical power of numbers. He also mentioned Qin Jushao.

    After China, he travelled to the place of India. He observed and described the Indian mathematicianand their invention of trigonometry. The introduction of their symbol, which is the number zero and the new concepts of infinityand negative numbers. Indian represented negative (-) numbers as dept. Gwalior fort mentioned that zero was inscribed in the walls. Also, the Bramagupta and Bhaskara as the conceptof zero.

   Du Sautoy considered the Middle East as the new language of algebra and cubic equations evolution. The development of algebra was one of the most important part of Arabic mathematics. They learned how to manipulate polynomials, solving equations and many more. They also contributed to geometry and trigonometry. Islamic empire conquer different civilizations. They also contributed in numeration system. Islamic empire collect, build, and decode anothers work.

    The Italian Renaissance had a mustof mathematical activity just like Greek and Arabic mathematics. Du Sautoy discovered that Italian use Roman Numerals. It wasintroduced by Leonard Fibonacci, the creator of Fibonacci Sequence.

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    In every civilization that developed mathematics, we also found evidence of mathematical knowledge. Math is needed for everyday life. Math was needed in developing branches of knowledge: astronomy, timekeeping and calendars. According to them, mathematics was interesting Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China became independently subject, practiced and ascribed by others.