Math+History

=** MATHEMATICS: HISTORY **=

After reading following paragraphs and watching the videos:

 * 1) === Do you think, you have been taught about the history of mathematics during your school days? ===
 * 2) === Do you have any idea about mathematics in Bhutan: when, where, and how it has evolved into our society? ===
 * 3) === In case if they don't know, should students in year ten be taught about the history of mathematics? any reason! ===

====Every culture on earth has developed some mathematics. In some cases, this mathematics has spread from one culture to another. Now there is one predominant international mathematics, and this mathematics has quite a history. It has roots in ancient Egypt and Babylonia, then grew rapidly in ancient Greece. Mathematics written in ancient Greek was translated into Arabic. About the same time some mathematics of India was translated into Arabic. Later some of this mathematics was translated into Latin and became the mathematics of Western Europe. Over a period of several hundred years, it became the mathematics of the world.==== ====There are other places in the world that developed significant mathematics, such as China, southern India, and Japan, and they are interesting to study, but the mathematics of the other regions have not had much influence on current international mathematics. There is, of course, much mathematics being done these and other regions, but it is not the traditional math of the regions, but international mathematics.==== (Reference: Joyce, D.E.(1994). //History of Mathematics//. Retrieved September 12, 2009, from http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/ )

**1.** The history of Mathematics:
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**2**. Keith Devlin, winner of the Carl Sagan Prize for science popularization, and "the math guy" on National Public Radio, talks about the history of mathematics in business.
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**3**. A BBC documentary on the history of mathematics, from its early beginnings to its current challenges. media type="youtube" key="7TCSH7Z0hL0" height="364" width="445"