Where do Mathematical Symbols Come From?

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I love her energy and passion!! You can tell that she is very excited about what she’s talking about and it is lovely to see ❤️

It is a privilege to see and hear a true mathematical genius speak, just imagine if we had lectures of descartes or newton available in 1040

They will defintiely understand all symbols because symbols are universal. 🤷🏽‍♂️

The Egyptian and Sumerian counting systems are similar to Olmec, Mayan, pre-invasion "mesoamerican" counting system.
I’m not surprised because theres evidence of humans migrating here as far back as 400k, 200k, 100k, 90k, 50, 40, 25, and 10k years.


For the time of pre-olmec civilizations there was 0 and it’s symbol was the conch, but it was not used in math but in cosmology, representing energy and matter emanating from the quantum realm and spiraling out in fractal form, hence we have the half conch symbol worn by Olmec etc scientists, exposing the spiral which meant you had this understanding .
The numbers 1-4 were dots …. and 5 is a dash -. 
Two dashes = were 10 and instead of 20 being 4 dashes, within a square work space, it was a dot placed at a higher level, with single number dots and dashes represnting 5 being at the bottom of the square work space.
So a dot placed at the top of your square could be added to, subtracted from, and divided by dots and dashes.
1-5 were also used to represent the female body and so creativity. 
6-10 as well used for counting and represented the male accompanying numbers to the female numbers.  
Obviously there were larger numbers but you can look that up and maybe find something reliable.

13 symbols were a week. There were 20 months that used those 13 symbols only. There were 5.25 days to complete the cycle. 52 years are 1 full asrtological alignment cycle.
The solar, lunar, venus, martian and other planetary counts were considered and part of the count as well. 
Math was used to build thousands of structures from central mexico to central america, all of which were aligned with constelations or marked solar, lunar, and planetary zeniths.


There is evidence that corn was being cultivated as early as 9k years ago - also that it’s a central theme in the culture and philosphy with 8k year old figures showing corn symbols on their heads, in Baja Ca - there are paintings of a calendar count 8k years ago in Guerrero Mexico, showing an aligator which represnets day one of a certain count and dog which represents the end of that count, showing its a section of a calendar and not a complete count which was already known - these symbols were used from that time up to the Olmec civilization that probably perfected and formalized it - they were shown recently to be a language and not just symbols - and it is largely ignored and underrepresented in world history.
Thats 8k years of continuous development of a culture, language, philosophy, count/calander, and civilization.
Don’t mind us, we’ve been here for a while.

Interestingly enough, the word "sine" happens to sound similar to the German word "Sehne", which literally translates to "sinew", but is also used to denote the string of a bow - and, in geometry, any straight line between two points on a circle.

Newton stole Differential Algebra from Leibniz and renamed it Infinitesimal Calculus and claimed the ownership .

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was Persian, not Arabic, so were most of that time scientists. Yes, there's a huge difference.

It's just math so you don't need to be exact. 😊

all math that studied in school was discovered and described before 0-9 numbers invented. and you for example can draw a line above any letter to point that it is not letter but amount like ⲕ̄ or ⲕ͡ⲩ

Correction....equal(=) signs...formulas...never invented...always discovered by a genius...

Brits need to be taught latin to really understand Newton's Principia Mathematica which should be more important than the bible imho.

One interesting thing about exponentiation — in type theory, it corresponds to function types, like how tagged unions and tuples are sum and product types. But whereas exponents are commonly written like 2^5 (or with a superscript 5) for 32, the equivalent function type would also be written 5 -> 2. Which makes some sense, because A -> B is the type of a function with input A and output B; we think in chronological order from left to right. And the other notation has some mental logic to its order too — “take this, multiply it by itself this many times”.

So in a world where the same notation was used for both function types and arithmetic, which order would the terms go in?

About the Dutch who do not understand the language say: its Latin to me. We rather say it is Abacadabra. Perhaps Arabic? :-) Nice lecture by the way!

The carbon-units infestation is to be removed from the Creator's planet.

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We have no way of knowing what base an alien civilisation counts in.

no such thing as Tudor Britain, just England and Wales.

A wise person once said that the limits of our language is the limit of our existence (paraphrase). It is fascinating to learn some of how language morphed into mathematics and from the concrete to the abstract. The pursuit of mathematics has given us powerful tools.

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IS THERE BEST BOOK ON mathematical symbols SAW ONE BEFORE HAD MY SYMBOLS MEMORIZED INCLUDING ORIGION USE FORGOT MOST NEED HELP?

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The dollar sign: We use the S with a vertical line through it, but it used to be an S with two vertical lines. (you may have seen it) originally it was an S with a tall skinny U through it. U.S. Before that the S overlapped the right half of a normal width U. The word 'dollar' came from the Germanic word 'thaller' (pronounced taller) which referred to a silver coin that was used all over Europe.

Numbers come from Arabic, zero originally from Hindi. Not sure about the others, I assume they were invented to do a job.

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The Babylonian system is not "Base 60" any more than our system is "Base 100". Their system was based on the number 60 as they used finger joints as well as fingers, but it was not "Base 60" and I don't know why people say it was.

If it were "Base 60", we would have to count something like:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C,
D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O,
P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, α,
ß, Γ, δ... and so on up to 10.

60 in so called "Babylonian Base 60" is 60 in Base 10, so it's obviously not Base 60. If it were Base 60, then a Babylonian 10 would be 60 in Base 10.

Compare with Base 2, Base 8, Base 16 and so on.

10 in Base 16 is 16 in base 10, and 10 in Base 10 is A in Base 16.

QED.

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I guess you have to start somewhere, but what if we are more advanced then they are, and they don’t understand what we are try to communicate. And what if they don’t come in peace, what if they come to conquer?

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I just love this lady - could listen to her all day

so jiba -> Juba -> Cavity -> finally sine precedes Pythagorus ?

funny....i dont think the aliens would understand fractions based on that image

It would be interesting to take this same lens, and turn it towards programming language syntaxes. I would strongly suspect all the languages that are trying to look like English (eg.: python) are going in the wrong direction, and that some stranger notation (eg.: lisp with its simplicity, or even APL with its expressivity) is actually more what the future will be like.

Around 400bBC the Babylonians began to use a symbol for the placeholder - that is a zero.

The idea aliens would have the same maths is absurd. Even groups of humans (eg. Piraha) have very different processing of quantities and reason. Let alone animals, let alone Aliens.

This is just extremist platonic wishful thinking based on a purely religious belief whose only justifications are circular.

Thank you. Loved it

Amashumi = tens
Amabili = two of them
Ne = and
Isikhombisa = seven

This lecture makes it all so attractive. I've always been drawn to the 9s and apparently the writings of the numbers. I love this one.