A Brief History of

Mathematics Departmentura ittaya arn School

Addition Mathematics (Ma2120…) Mathayam 1 (IEP)

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.

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.

Difference?

What is the difference between

‘number’ and ‘numeral’?

Nowadays

1 2539245

2,586

48,959

Hundu-Arabic numeralWhat do we call?

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 ៦៧៨៩ Khmer

๐ ๑ ๒ ๓ ๔ ๕ ๖ ๗ ๘ ๙ Thai

໐ ໑ ໒ ໓ ໔ ໕ ໖ ໗ ໘໙ Lao

Because…

1 39

459

48,959

0It was formed by

Hindu or, now, Indian.

It was presented in Europe by

Arabic, people in middle east Asia.

2,58625

Ancient Egyptian Numerals

Babylonian Numerals

Roman Numeral