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Eduventure
Reinventing
Society ─ One System at a Time
s the Greek empire began to widen its sphere of
Ainfluence into Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and
beyond, their people were smart enough to accept
and acclimate all the useful elements from the societies
which they conquered. Have a brief look at the history.
Ancient Greeks have made some significant contributions
to the field of mathematics. During the time of the ancient
Greek civilization, several of their arithmeticians became
famous for their work. People like Pythagoras, Archimedes,
Euclid, Posidonius, Hipparchus and Ptolemy brought new
fundamentals of thinking to society, fostering the field of
math, and building on the earlier work of Egyptian and
Babylonian mathematicians.
A few generations later, the Romans became the
intellectually dominant society on the planet. But
unfortunately, and surprisingly, the one characteristic that
pulled-down the “intellectual” Roman society was the
dearth of Roman mathematicians. Rest assured, very soon
the scholarly members of Roman society came from a good
gene pool and they were every bit as gifted and talented as
the Greeks. But then, Romans were held hostage by their
own learning systems, which restricted them from thinking
innovatively. One of the primary culprits for the lack of
Roman mathematicians was their renowned numbering
system.
Roman numerals and its lack of numeric positioning were
actually a disaster. Romans were so engrossed in their
numbering system that they had no clue that it was averting