Biblical Math Research Paper

Mathematics is used in every aspect of life. In order to figure out time and space, width and depths in science math is needed. Mathematics is very relevant in order to function in this world. Every job requires it, the hours worked must be counted, pay must be multiplied by the hours worked. God provides many gifts to his people, such as wisdom and knowledge to name a few. Mathematics was created by the Lord and gifted to his people. Throughout education, it is taught that mathematics was invented by mankind. However, math was used in biblical days, before Christ. Math dates all the back to 4000 BC. The Babylonians were the first group of people to be recorded as during math. “Babylonians had extraordinary manipulative skills and a maturity and flexibility of algebraic skills” (Webmaster, …show more content…
[APA], n.d.). It was said that “Those who could remember these table by heart were able to trade more successfully” (Sautoy, Marcus Du, 2014). Remember the people of Babel attempted to build a tower to the heavens. “Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven” (Genesis 11:4). They used multiplication tables, however, they did not use zeros, their geometry was often incorrect. Yet they solved the cubic equations which was used often in biblical days with the help of tables. Then there was Pythagoras the first Greek mathematician. He was educating the Italians around 518 BC. Pythagoras was quoted saying that everything is numbers. He also thought that math was the basis of everything and everything of the world could be translated into math. The Pythagorean theorem was named after him. This math is considered geometry or solving the triangle. If the two legs of the triangle are known then the hypotenuse can be solved. They equations is C2 = A2+B2. Lastly the father of algebra Diophantus. Diophantus wrote books about math around 200 AD. His most notable work was with