👉 Mathematics has its roots tracing back to ancient civilizations, with early developments focusing on practical problems like counting, measuring, and trade. The Babylonians around 2000 BCE made significant strides in arithmetic and algebra, using a sexagesimal (base-60) number system. The Egyptians employed geometry for construction and land surveying, while the ancient Greeks, particularly Pythagoras and Euclid, laid foundational theories in geometry and number theory. The Indian mathematicians advanced concepts like zero and the decimal system, and Islamic scholars preserved and expanded Greek knowledge. The Renaissance saw a resurgence with contributions from Fibonacci, who popularized the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe, and later, the development of calculus by Newton and Leibniz in the 17th century revolutionized mathematical analysis, enabling the study of change and motion.
