After reading the article, I realized how geographic locations have always influenced the history of math. Also, astronomy has an enormous influence on the history of math. From Medieval to China, there have been many records showing the close relationship between astronomy and math. It's interesting to see how humans have always been curious about space and other planets in space, and math is often used in calculations of related matters. Many new inventions in the field are from science and space, which further approved that math is beneficial and important in other science subjects. I believe it's important for teachers to introduce math history to students in different aspects to understand other related subjects to make math more interesting. I wonder if people already knew the existence of other beings in space.
It's fascinating to see how many mathematicians are also experts in other fields like astronomy, architecture, and literature. Most of them are well-educated with curiosity. They are often very observant. They all have the common characteristics of curiosity and are eager to learn, which are the crucial traits to success.
Lastly, math history seems always to travel to different regions in its own course, and they all have similar common ground or theory behind them. It's fascinating and strange how the history of human beings and knowledge evolves. When you think about it, it seems like there has alwasy been an invisible hand controlling the history of science along the way and it's crazy to think about how our technology is so advanced nowadays, which makes me think what will the technology look like in another 100 year?
Good work! Thanks Zoe. And PS: Please do post on your own blog about your group's Assignment 3 project (which I've read about on other people's blogs but not yours).
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