Mathematics: The Study of Numbers, Quantity, and Space

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Mathematics The Study of Numbers Quantity and Space businesses and industries They are employed at all levels of government They work at universities Mathematicians may be accoun tants work in the insurance industry work at nonprofits or become market researchers analysts financial advisers real estate agents and statisticians They may go on to become doctors lawyers architects scientists come puter programmers video game developers digital animators and more That s because mathematicians learn how to use logic and analysis In many ways math is a language that first developed in the ancient world And like a language math has contin ued to evolve and grow The Egyptians show evidence of math through their man made pyramids The Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia devel oped ways to work with fractions The Greeks took math to a philosophical level using it for reasoning Indian mathematicians advanced algebra Italians during the Renaissance began using letters of the alphabet in algebraic equations In the 17th century calculus and analytic geometry were developed Isaac Newton an English physicist who is considered one of 8