A Brief History of Mathematics
Since ancient times, language was created out of the need to communicate. In the same way, counting, sharing, estimating the food needs of people in a group, measuring distances, identifying the direction and determining the route, observing that the sunrise and sunset occur at different times every day, observing the paths of planets, stars, comets in the sky full of stars, measuring the time from that. Mathematics emerged as a science from numerous things like doing, keeping records of eclipses and presenting their calculations. And it evolved. The Indian subcontinent has a tradition of mathematics dating back to the Vedic period. Dasmana system is used in Vedas. In the Vedas all numbers up to the 23rd power of ten are named.
A rich literature on mathematics developed in India from 1000 BC onwards. Bodhayana’s Shalavasutra and Vedanga Jyotish are the leading books among them. e. In 900 BC, Bhaskaracharya wrote the book ‘Lilavati’, which was translated into many languages of the world. At that time, India had trade relations with countries like Europe, Arabia, Greece, Iran, etc., and a large number of traders from these countries used to come to India. They used to be astonished to see the progress of Indians in mathematics and astronomy. It was then that the two books of Indian mathematics, khand-khadya and Brihad Samhita, were translated into Persian and reached the Arab world. He introduced mathematics based on decimal system to the people of Europe. His book remained in circulation for the next 200 years and day by day Indian mathematics became popular in Europe. But the narrative
