History of math. The most
ancient mathematical activity was counting. The counting was necessary to keep
up a livestock of cattle and to do business. Some primitive tribes counted up
amount of subjects, comparing them various parts of a body, mainly fingers of
hands and foots. Some pictures on the stone represents number 35 as a series of
35 sticks - fingers built in a line. The first essential success in arithmetic
was the invention of four basic actions: additions, subtraction, multiplication
and division. The first achievements of geometry are connected to such simple
concepts, as a straight line and a circle. The further development of
mathematics began approximately in 3000 up to AD due to Babylonians and
Egyptians.
