The different in mathematics between

the periods of the Ancient Egypt and Greek

1. Ancient Egypt

The ancient mathematics born in many areas in east world as practical science to help effort technique and agriculture. It is important to know that in mathematics east world none finds an example from that now we called verification. There is only description a process and not evidence.

For a long time, Egypt become richest area for research ancient history, because the worship that doing by Egypt people to people who have died, besides that area climate also become fascination for history researches. Civilizations in Egypt produce building in the form of temple and mausoleum. That building has important role to save the papyruses. Papyrus is an ancient material to write created by Egypt people and around 650 BC have been introduced in Greek.

There are some omissions from Ancient Egypt:

1. 3100 BC. At Egypt scepter, there are number expressing millions of and hundreds of thousand in Egypt hieroglyph, now this scepter save in Oxford museum.
2. 2900 BC. A big Pyramid in Gizeh builds by 100.000 workers in 30 years.
3. 1850 BC. There is papyrus Moscow contain 25 questions.
4. 1650 BC. There is papyrus Rhind (Ahmes), contains 85 questions in hieratic number by Ahmes. Now, this papyrus saves in British Museum.
5. 1500 BC. Indicative appliance of time with help shadow of the sun, now save in Berlin Museum.
6. 1350 BC. There is papyrus Rollin contains some calculation about bread price, now save in Louver.
7. 1167 BC. There is papyrus Harris, the document is compiled by Rameses IV contain masterworks of his father, Rameses III.

2. Greek

Greek goes forward along with the resignment of Egypt. Modern civilization emerges in small Asia, Greek, Sicilian and Italia. In there, for the first time in mathematics, peoples begin to say “why”. Paul Tannery, T.L. Heath, H.G. Zeuthan, A. Rome, J.L. Heiberg and E. Franle in tracing again history of mathematics in Ancient Greek. They only used sources from report in Arab and Nasrani report. They were reorganizing original report like Euclid, Apollonius, Archimedes, etc. A document about geometry and astronomy, which discusses the period before 355 BC by Eudemus, Aristotle’s student has losses. Then around 450 century, Neo-Platonist Proclus give his work about Commentary on Euclid, it was recognized as Eudemian Summary. This is sources of boldness which most can be trusted in Greek mathematics.

There are three important growth lines in the first 300 years in Greek mathematics. The first is the growth from the materials that compiled in unsure started from Pythagoras and his follower, Hippocrates, Eudexus, Theaterus, etc. It included the theorem that proves by Pythagoras until the solution “scandal logic” about irrational number by Eudexus. The second is the growth from ideas about infinitesimal, limit and way of quantifying which has no answer until the finding of calculus in modern-day. Then the last is about the curve in geometry except circle, straight line and area beside spherical object.