[Conservative Texan Mom]

Thanks. Isn't he also considered the father of mathematics?

[jec41]

Thanks. Isn't he also considered the father of mathematics?

Yep

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Thanks. Isn't he also considered the father of mathematics?"

Not really mathematics, but he was responsible for analytical geometry.
His scientific achievements were hit or miss due to his aversion to empiricism (checking things by observations).

[thomaswest]

Quoting: Isn't he also considered the father of mathematics?

I am going to be amused at how you respond to this! I am curious as to who will be accepted as "the father of math." I mean, fingers up to 10, then nose and chin gave us the dozen; toes bring us up to 20.

Then some clever people in India gave us the zero. The Romans and Greeks were slow to understand it. Pythagoras had ID notions about irrational numbers. The zero as a place holder for a place-based system of writing numbers based on powers of ten took 1000 years to gain acceptance. Brought to the West via Arabic scholars.

On a crevo thread, it will be amusing to see creationists telling us that math was given to us {poof} by the "Designer" vs. how our human understanding of numbers and mathematics evolved over a period of time, leading to geometry, calculus, topology, and other branches.

I await ID, numerologist, psychic types coming forth with with "proof" that every number is part of "our destiny", particularly 666. It is obvious that 999 is equally valid--you just have to look. Of course, in Bible times, there were no good mirrors.