Babylonian mathematics vs. Egypt mathematics vs. Greek mathematics

Greece..its not even a close question

its true that Greece took alot from Babylonia but went above and beyond

Formalized mathematics, the axiomatic deductive mathematics we know today begins in Greece, specifically Euclid's Elements


Egypt is a literal who when it comes to math, they did have great practical engineering accomplishments, but there math was not on the same level as Greece or Babylonia

>>8627697
Greeks were the only society to invent the concept of mathematical proof, which from a modern perspective makes them God tier. Egyptians had some advantages though, like IIRC they had the most precise method of calculating the area of a circle.

Egypt was a bit more advanced then Babylonia. Greece was more advanced than Egypt.

By how much more advanced is going to depend on when you're talking about. Ancient Greece and Pythagoras was just a bit more advanced than Egypt, whereas later hellenistic mathematicians like Euclid and Archimedes were far more advanced.

>>8627702
the Babylonians actually had a primitive concept of the proof

but what they lacked was the axiomatic, deductive systems that Greek mathematicians used

>>8627705
i disagree

Babylonia and Greece were more in tuned with the sort of formalized mathematics that we know today


Egypt was more of the practical trial and error type mathematics

>>8627702
Yeah the Greeks took a more philosophical approach. With the Egyptians it was more like engineers trying to work out very practical maths and methodologies. Approximations were OK, as long as the building stayed up.

There's a surviving set of Egyptian papyri that was basically a textbook for early engineers and surveyors. It contains a number of story problems that read very, very much like what one might find in a modern high school geometry book.

Where do the Romans fit in all of this?

>>8627712
Engineer plebs.

>>8627712
Badly. They started off by killing Archimedes, and it was mostly downhill from there.

>>8627697
The greeks, funny thing is that there symbols such as semphi iota phi tau and pi all represent lines curves and rotation around the iota