We do not need Mathematics

But, I don't think it's required since we have been studying Mathematics from the start, the day when everyone of us joined school. The first day we were taught about numbers, and that's when Mathematics becomes a part of our life. I personally don't think that Mathematics is a shared burden of proof. And as my opponent has asked me to show that Mathematics is required because it is very important, I would like to give some examples from daily life. I would like to draw attention to the fact that almost everything we do - from buying a bar of chocolate to reaching a movie hall on time -involves Mathematics. At a cricket match or a football match, what is score-keeping but the arithmetical form of Mathematics? While building a house, right from the planning stage, we need Mathematics in its various forms, such as arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry. We need Mathematics to keep track of our day to day expenses too. HUMAN CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MATHEMATICS : Even the earliest man had need of basic mathematical understanding: counting, keeping time, shape and symmetry in craft and art, and the practical matters of measuring and building, albeit roughly. Archaeological evidence for basic mathematical understanding (example, tallying by groups) dates back to 30,000 B. C. E. , when bone artefact's were discovered from the Stone Age. By 3500 B. C. E. , the "Egyptians had a fully developed number system that would allow counting to continue indefinitely with only the introduction from time to time of a new symbol. "" And by 3000 B. C. E. , the Babylonians had developed a system of writing from pictographs which included a fully developed sexagesimal positional system and positional notation for sexagesimal fractions. The towering achievement of Euclid's presentation of the Elements of Geometry kept that position for Geometry through to the end of the 1700 s and into the early 1800 s. The real numbers and their establishment and properties is the provenance of analysis fundamentals, an accomplishment that was finally completed in the 1800 s by Cantor, Dedekind, and others. SEVEN PERIODS OF MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE : 1. Proto-Mathematics (from the mists of ancient time, through the archaeological evidence of c.30000 B. C. E. , up to 2000 B. C. E. ): Empirical, Not abstract, Basic 2. Ancient Mathematics (from 2000 B. C. E. up to 800 B. C. E. ): Empirical, Number and Figures abstracted, Highly sophisticated (Babylonian, Egyptian), Not axiomatic 3. Classical Mathematics (from 800 B. C. E. to 1500 C. E. ): Axiomatic geometry (Greek), Highly sophisticated geometry, Sophisticated abstraction in algebra and Algorithmization of arithmetic (Indian, Arabic, Central Asian) 4. Mercantile Mathematics (from 1400 C. E. to 1500 C. E. ): Improvement in numeration, Symbolic development, and Symbolic shorthand arithmetic (Renaissance Europe), Sophisticated algebra and Solution of equations (Italian wranglers) 5. Pre-Modern Mathematics (from 1500 C. E. to 1700 C. E. ): Functions, Continuous mathematics, Analytic geometry, Calculus, Applications to science 6. Modern Mathematics (from 1700 C. E. to 1950 C. E. ): Modern abstract analysis, Modern abstract algebra, Modern abstract geometry, Modern logic "" all freed mathematics from the perspectives, paradoxes, and problems encountered during the classical and mercantile periods 7. Post-Modern Mathematics (from 1950 C. E. to present): Dramatic expansion in scope and productivity in mathematics, based upon axiomatic methods, accelerated by unprecedented growth in science, applied science, engineering, technology, statistics, and applications to all areas of human endeavor. Sources: . http://mathscitech.org...