Syria and Iraq have a major role in setting the rules of mathematics
Damascus, (ST) – Dr. Mahmoud Al-Sayed, an archaeologist and historian at the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums said that, “the theory of triangles, squares, rectangles, circles and trapezoids was not made by Pythagoras or Euclid.” This matter is confirmed by Syrian and Iraqi archaeological finds, he added.
In his lecture at the Arab Cultural Center in Abu Rummaneh yesterday, Dr. Al-Sayed demonstrated with irrefutable archaeological evidence that man used drawing in counting and that the Syrian invented for the first time in the world geometric pieces made of limestone that were used in arithmetic. One of the pottery engineering pieces discovered in Mesopotamia and Iraq, 2,000 years ago.
Dr. Al-Sayed pointed out that in Syria, for the first time in the world, the oldest figurative writing and the oldest model for counting and statistics in the world, dated to the ninth millennium BC, were recorded at the archaeological site of Tel Al-Jurf al-Ahmar.
Al-Sayed said that, “the oldest multiplication table for measuring lengths in the world recorded on the Sumerian cuneiform was discovered in Iraq, and it dates back to 2700 BC. 1408 BC before the birth of Pythagoras, knowing that Pythagoras was born in 492 BC and obtained his knowledge of mathematics through his visit to Babylon and the transfer of these sciences from the land of Iraq to the country of Greece and then attributed to him without right.
Dr. Al-Sayed indicated that the density of the cuneiform number, which deals with issues of geometry, algebra and astronomy, and explains in the smallest details the theory of triangles and types of triangles, and how to calculate the types of squares, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, and circle diameters confirms Iraq’s preference over the world in codifying the foundations of geometry and algebra before any other civilization. He said that the pharaohs knew and codified the trigonometry in 1700 BC.
The Syrian archaeologist said that, “if the credit goes to Syria globally for inventing the oldest geometric pieces of limestone used in the calculation, and it was the origin of the emergence of figurative writing in Syria. He added that, thanks to the Syrians, the first pen-like tool was used to record the oldest figurative writing in the world on basalt and older stone pieces.
A model for counting and statistics in the world, and thanks to Iraq, engineering issues and their rules, algebra sciences and everything related to engineering were codified, confirming that the ancient East region is the source of human civilization and its sciences, The Syrian archaeologist concluded.
Raghda Sawas