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The Guardian - UK

Lifestyle

Aug 4, 2024, 1:01 PM

Who invented mathematics?

French line engraving of Plutarch, 1541 — Plutarch tries to gets his head around some sums circa AD66. (French line engraving, 1541.) Photograph: The Granger Collection/Alamy

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

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