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mehmedbasic posted:I think most of the great mathematicians were wealthy enough to afford sitting around and drawing triangles. Most sumerian math was done to manage trade accounts in the grain and olive oil markets, the tablets were basically a bronze age SEC rule book. In greek culture up to the italian renaissance, early research institutions were more akin to modern trading shops then the oxford style lecture halls we see today. For most of the early bronze to 0AD period students were deadbeat oligarch children who were sent off to learn property and rent management for fear they would make crappy conscripts in the Grekos armies. The Plato description of an average day at the lectures matches up squarely with an 16th century monk's trade/apprenticeship schedule. When iron age shipping advanced beyond small costal skiffs the need for need for math to manage inventory, logistics and quality control rapidly took off according to arabic & hellenic texts. The whole Archimedean experiment was to prevent early gold fixing & currency fraud. Most trig and lunar tracking was done for the futures market so farmers could properly know the ideal time for crop loans (from said broker/dealers) and the optimal planting cycles. Most early cultures figured the constellations and polythestic gods were technical omens. Antiphon was a trust fund kiddie who figured out how to square a circle, likely related to solving complex civil engineering designs Aristarchus was a grain trader who tracked the solar cycles to figure out how to properly manage inventories Aristotle was the son of the chief doctor to the monarchy and a college dropout who became a lifelong tutor to dictators Autolycus was a prof who made a living finding old texts from Mesopotamia, copying and reselling them with his deadbeat buddy Aristotle. The original ESTY Byson proved PI works, general tenured academic Diocles, made the parabola and general math forms for geometry, probably a trader or at least a consulting professor given his relationship with Appolinous and who usually financed astrology/solar cycles back in early Greece. Euclid, developed euclidean geometry's principles. Hero of Alexandria, allegedly invented the steam engine when the rest of greece was trying to solve for X given Y. Hipparchus, founded Trig. Sin that poo poo. His patron is lost to history. Hal_2005 fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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