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MAT 113 History Of Mathematics

NCE1 levelSciences10 topics

MAT 113 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Pre-history Mathematics
  2. Development of Mathematics in the Ancient times
  3. Contributions of Babylonians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Hindus, Arabs and Chinese.
  4. Prominent Ancient Mathematicians and their contributions (Archimedes, Pythagoras,
  5. Euclid, Apollonius, etc.)
  6. Development of mathematics in the Middle Ages and prominent Mathematicians of the
  7. The Renaissance and Mathematics (16th to 20th Centuries) and prominent mathematicians
  8. Bannach, Cauchy)
  9. The use of mathematics in everyday life including its place in Natural and Applied
  10. History of African and Nigerian mathematics

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Pre-history Mathematics

Pre-history Mathematics deals with the earliest mathematical ideas developed before formal written mathematical texts. For examination purposes, you must master how early humans used counting, measurement, patterns, and simple records in daily life, because this explains how mathematics grew from practical needs into an organized subject.

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