From Abacus to computational thinking

 Nombre: Rojas Gerardo 

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Blog objetive

This blog is about an investigation about the history of Mathematics, philosophy and logic, of industries, first mechanical and now digital, and the transformations of how we work, study, play, inform ourselves and interact. Include computational thinking in terms of process flows, project structuring, coding, and multimedia communication interfaces.

Mathematics History

Origin of mathematics

To know the origin of mathematics, we must go back thousands of years in time.

Currently nothing that surrounds us would be possible without a good dose of mathematical calculation, but it has not always been this way.

At first it was simple. The concept of a cipher was pretty self-explanatory, although it already represented a major conceptual shift. In fact, there are remains with sequences of marks that symbolize figures that date back more than thirty thousand years.

And with the figures came the basic arithmetic operations: adding and subtracting. Simply with this, a whole world of possibilities opened up. Trade could be established, distances could be measured, and armies could be compared.

Multiplication and division also came about quickly. Delivering things and adding amounts repeatedly were things that were done daily. Both in commerce, in agriculture or in the day to day they could be used.

Who Invented Mathematics

It can be said that the ancient Egyptians were the inventors of mathematics.

Although yes, there is not a year or a person who can be awarded who is the inventor of mathematics, since it has been a logical evolution of civilization over time.

For this reason, this question cannot be fully answered. How we have told you about addition and subtraction, for example, they already existed long before. But it is true that the people of Ancient Egypt began to use arithmetic operations of a certain complexity.

The Egyptians already had a bit more advanced mathematics. For example, they already knew how to make equations, as they wrote down on some papyrus of the time and which has survived to this day.

Evolution of mathematics

But the great leap in evolution and knowledge of mathematics was made by the Greeks of the time of Pythagoras (569 to 475 BC).

The key was to start analyzing the numbers as abstractions and not as representations of real things.

There were rules that governed the universe of numbers and these rules could be known. When they realized it, a whole world appeared to be explored. It was an abstract world, but extremely useful when they returned to real life.

Around the same time (5th century BC), the Indians were also making great strides in mathematics. They also struggled with concepts like the number π (pi) or infinity, things that went far beyond simple calculations made by merchants.

But, after a moment of extraordinary splendor, mathematics stalled for almost a thousand years. With the exception of the Arabs and their development of algebra, mathematics in Europe was limited to what the ancient Greeks had discovered. And so it continued until the Renaissance.

Discovery of modern mathematics

During the seventeenth century, the knowledge that humans had of the world and the Universe began to accelerate and mathematical tools were needed to manipulate new discoveries. But then came a second outbreak of this science.

At that time the concepts of logarithm, infinitesimal calculus, probability calculus and everything that is now the basis of modern mathematics arose.

They are things that seem very abstract to us, but they are at the base of calculations to make buildings, to get airplanes to fly, to send information over the Internet or to calculate drug doses.

Now mathematics no longer studies for its applicability directly, but for the pure exploration of an unknown place.

This is no pointless fun, since experience indicates that all advances in mathematics have almost immediate application to real life, however remote and abstract the explanations of mathematicians may seem to us.

Perhaps most of us will be indifferent that the Riemann hypothesis (year 1859) has not yet been proven, an obscure mathematical proposition (obscure except for mathematicians, of course).

But it is enough to know that the future of communications depends on this demonstration to realize that mathematics always has a direct effect on our existence.

And, although it is difficult for many of us to grasp it, they also have an intrinsic beauty, similar to the great works of literature or art. The concepts of elegance and beauty are implicit in mathematics, and the day you realize it, a whole new field of experience opens up for you.