Tuesday, November 1, 2011

QQC (The book of Numbers)

Question: How will or how much will math change in the far future? For example one of the mathematicians in India had a method that was thought of being right until later another mathematician in France proved his theory was wrong.

Quote: "Remarkably it took thousands of years before anyone worked out that we needed a new number. We needed zero."

Comment: This made me think of math in a different way, it was nice for a change to understand why 0 cant be divided by any number. Math really is the universal language that everyone understands regardless of where they are from. Zero was talked a lot about in this reading which was good because when most people think of 0 they think of nothing but it made an impact on this history of numbers by mathematicians trying thinking deeply about how zero is a number.,