{"id":10113,"date":"2019-09-25T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T01:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10113"},"modified":"2019-09-27T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T20:23:16","slug":"was-math-created-or-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/25\/was-math-created-or-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Was math created or discovered?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09252019-05.jpg\" alt=\"Was math created or discovered?\" class=\"wp-image-10103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09252019-05.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09252019-05-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09252019-05-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09252019-05-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Was math created or discovered?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the word &#8220;mathematics&#8221; was coined by the Pythagoreans in 6th C. BC Greece, it&#8217;s clear that wasn&#8217;t the first math. Records of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry go back much further, to areas in the near East, near modern Egypt and Iraq, and it&#8217;s quite possible forms of mathematics existed long before the printed word (or number). Here are a few dozen books on the topic: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-ancient-math\">bit.ly\/bc-ancient-math<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the word &#8220;mathematics&#8221; was coined by the Pythagoreans in 6th C. BC Greece, it&#8217;s clear that wasn&#8217;t the first math. Records of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry go back much further, to areas in the near East, near modern Egypt and Iraq, and it&#8217;s quite possible forms of mathematics existed long before the printed word &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/25\/was-math-created-or-discovered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Was math created or discovered?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10178,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions\/10178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}