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8271389 No.8271389 [Reply] [Original]

we always talk about greek mathematics and how Euclid is the "father of geometry", but that is a Eurocentric belief

Egyptians and the Babylonians had concepts of geometry way before Euclid and the Greeks

>> No.8271394

focusing on greek mathematical history is not "eurocentric"

The Greeks were the first civilization to introduce mathematical proofs and Euclid was the first to establish an axiomatic system for geometry essentially launching the formal science of mathematics of today.

So while the Egyptians and Babylonians had mathematical concepts...more so the Babylonians, the Greeks were really the first to revolutionze math on such a fundamental level

>> No.8271418

WE

>> No.8271433
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8271433

>>8271389
We wuz kangz

>> No.8271434

>>8271418
WUZ

>> No.8271469

>>8271394

this

>> No.8271489

the pyramids are a myth

>> No.8271492

>>8271434
You're just lending credence to the myth that the ancient Egyptians were black and not Arab

>> No.8271502

who fucking cares.

gauss didn't invent gaussian elimination but we call it after him.

a lot of chinese mathematics is overall disregarded.

but its just math. the discovery is more important than the discoverer and certainly more important than the geographic region from which it was discovered.

>> No.8271525

>>8271492
You're just lending credence to the myth that they WUZ NOT KANGS

>> No.8271532

>>8271389
>nignog master race were advanced and shit

>> No.8271582

>>8271389
Euclid didn't discover shit, he just complied and ordered all the Greeks' mathematical knowledge in a comperehensible manner.

>> No.8271886

Archimedes invented calculus centuries before Newton.

>> No.8271916

Ancient Egyptian slaves rendered those stones slabs with what tools? They weren't even in the bronze age when these structures are said to have been constructed. How could they shape rock so quickly, even with a billion slaves?

>> No.8271933

>>8271916
Aliens

>> No.8271945

>>8271916
cold hammered copper tools
limestone is soft
basalt is hard and used for tools
thousands of people working for months every year, for 25 years.

>> No.8271948

Didn't the Egyptians have a more 'brute force' method of mathematics? Keep trying things until something worked?

>> No.8271950

>>8271394
Math can't be proven by itself, if it is.. Then it is inconsistent.

t. Gödel

:^)

>> No.8271967

>>8271916
Concrete?

https://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/pyramids/are-pyramids-made-out-of-concrete-1/

How they figured out a long lasting recipe and mined mass quantities is another story.

>> No.8271968

THERE ARE NO DISCOVERIES, ONLY REVELATIONS!

>> No.8271986

Just fuck off back to pol you retards

>> No.8272556

>>8271933
ayyyy

>> No.8272575

>>8271916
They were not slaves

>> No.8273311

>>8271916
But it WAS Bronze Age, you retard

>> No.8274443

>>8271916
hurrrrrrrr

>> No.8274458

>>8271502
Most of eastern anything in general is disregarded. Like their methods of construction without using metal, and their wooden buildings still standing just fine thousands of years later.

>> No.8274479

>>8271986
Fuck your ass.