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The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians were skillful at utilizing arithmetic and it is actually speculated that the pyramids were more than the tombs of ancient kings long dead; the pyramids were also the first computers. It was said the measurements and alignment of the pyramids assisted the ancients in calculating complicated calculations much like how we might use a log table before the widespread use of calculators. But where did the actual academic study of arithmetic begin? Math as we know it with geometry, vectors, differentiation, integration, mechanics, sequences, trigonometry, proability, binomials, estimation, hypothesis testing, geometric and exponential distributions and hyperbolic functions (to name a few off the top of my head) began in basic Greece as far back between 600 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] BC to 300 BC.

From it's humble beginnings of tied knots, math has been pushed into science and has been of great benefit to both fields of study. In fact, it is said that he who does not know math cannot fully appreciate the beauty of nature. I would go so far as to say that there is no truth without mathematics. Anything without [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] a number is merely an opinion. What we consider qualitative measurements are really quantitative ones that have exceeded a certain threshold after which we confer a certain label. For example, when we say a drug works, what we really [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] mean is that 70% of people who were administered a fixed dosage of the drug over a specific period of time experienced perhaps 90% reduction in the severity of their symptoms. Our threshold of saying that "a drug works" is therefore, 70%.

To give you an idea of how the world of arithmetic [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] has extended in recent years, I shall conclude this article with a quote from the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society:

"The number of papers and books included in the Mathematical Reviews database since 1940 (the first year of operation of MR) is now more than 1.9 million, and more than 75,000 items are added to the database per year. The overwhelming majority of works in this ocean contain new mathematical theorems and their proofs" - [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Mikhail [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] B. Sevryuk,

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