The Story of Maths: The Language of the Universe

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  1. 4. Pythagoras concluded the whole universe was built from these.
  2. 5. The Horus Eye was the first hint at this type of series.
  3. 7. The Egyptians were responsible for creating this system in Math.
  4. 9. Archimedes found a way to calculate the volume of a sphere by slicing it up and approximating each slice as one of these.
  5. 10. The square root of two is what we now call this type of number.
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  1. 1. One of the greatest legacies of Babylonian mathematics is the use of this type of equations.
  2. 2. Hypatia's death dealt a final blow to the Greek mathematical heritage of this city.
  3. 3. Today, our number system uses powers of ten, but the Babylonian system used powers of this number.
  4. 6. The Egyptians used this ratio when they built the pyramids.
  5. 8. Plato believed the cube represented this.