Mathematics in Our Culture

Mathematics is a multicultural science with a rich past. We do not know exactly when and where it first originated. Beginnings that go beyond simple counting methods can be found in the ancient Orient long before Greek antiquity, among the Maya, in China and India, and in many other places in the world. It was certainly a cultural technique from the outset, which had concrete applications in practical areas of the societies of the time. Only in Greek antiquity did a mathematical science slowly develop with the fundamental areas of arithmetic, geometry and logic.