Essays on Babylonian

1. Response to Kirsten Frazier Yes Kirsten, you rightly said that the present number system invented by the Hindus was actually a cue taken from the Babylonian system. Indefinite spacing between numbers led to the invention of zero (Berlinghoff, 2004, p. 67). The Babylonian system was a sexagesimal system; with base 60. Big spaces were used between numbers to show larger shifts in place values. The Hindu numerals also utilized the addition system of the Egyptian system. Before zero was invented, the Babylonians could feel the empty spaces between numbers and they could see their absence. Historians have evidences ...

Preface and Arithmetic and Geometry philosophy of mathematics

Mathematics gives access to the part of philosophy including introduction, arithmetic, and geometry. In other words, mathematics concerns the way people perceive this physical world and hence essential to the physical world. The arithmetic is a philosophical part of mathematics that deal with the property and manipulation of numbers. For instance, in arithmetic, the sequence has the constant difference between the two consecutive terms, while in the geometry the sequence has a ratio between the terms.

Practice of Mathematics

This includes different complexes of mathematical problems or core problems that a mathematician should understand to acquire a broad competence in mathematics. For ...

Questions and Answers

1. The beginning of mathematics dates back to any civilization ever formed, which developed a form of writing. Use of numbers, shapes and basic mathematical operations could be seen in almost every civilization, in the form of quantification in crafts, trade and work. On studying construction sites, anthropologists could clearly conclude that some amount of mathematical understanding prevailed in the people. Evidences found in the rectangular bases of buildings, in the designs of weaving patterns, basketry; craft etc. all prove that there existed an understanding of mathematics even in early civilizations. In about 500BC, trade and tax laws were ...

Beyond doubt, D.W. Griffith is one of the stalwarts in the domain of cinema who has left an immortal mark in the minds of the film critics and the audience with his seminal works of art that have been deemed to be among the best the medium of art has ever seen. The primary importance of Griffith’s cinematic works lies in the use of innovative filmic techniques that went on to define the language of cinema in the future years. A close scrutiny of the films like The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) would enable ...

Ishtar Gate was built in Babylon in 575 BC, during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar and is a great arch of bricks, covered with bright blue enamel. Arch walls are decorated with sacred animals, dragons and bulls, which the Babylonians considered satellites of the gods. Fragments of the gate are now in various museums around the world: in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, the Louvre, in New York, Chicago; in Boston reliefs of lions, dragons and bulls are stored; in Detroit, at the Museum of Fine Arts, relief of sirrush is stored. A copy of the Ishtar Gate in Iraq is ...