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Readers reply: Who invented mathematics?

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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29, a fragment of Euclid’s Elements dated between 75AD and 125AD, is part of the collection of Penn Museum in Philadelphia. Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership/Alamy

Who first made calculating numbers a discipline and called it mathematics? Matilda Day, aged 10, Dordogne, France

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