Magical Numbers: maths is important! ;)

When you buy a car, follow a recipe, or decorate your home, you're using math principles. People have been using these same principles for thousands of years, across countries and continents. Whether you're sailing a boat off the coast of Japan or building a house in Peru, you're using math to get things done.

How can math be so universal? First, human beings didn't invent math concepts; we discovered them. Also, the language of math is numbers, not English or German or Russian. If we are well versed in this language of numbers, it can help us make important decisions and perform everyday tasks. Math can help us to shop wisely, buy the right insurance, remodel a home within a budget, understand population growth, or even bet on the horse with the best chance of winning the race.

Quotes about Mathematics

1. “Education should be started with mathematics. For it forms well

designed brains that are able to reason right. It is even admitted that

those who have studied mathematics during their childhood should be

trusted, for they have acquired solid bases for arguing which become

to them a sort of second nature”.

Ibn Khaldun, al-Muqaddima (born in 1332, Tunis), historian, sociologist, philosopher

Strongest personalities of Arab-Muslim culture in the period of its deline.