25 Most Significant Inventions In Human History

As annoying as math was for every person who had to endure it in school, the truth is that mathematics, and more importantly numerical measurement, was essential to many scientific breakthroughs and historical transformations.

By learning how to calculate something’s value accurately, humans became able to turn seemingly difficult concepts into exact sciences. Measuring distance, speed, time, value, weight, momentum, and countless other things of that sort couldn’t be possible without the ability to calculate an object’s value with numbers.

The impact of mathematics and tallying with numerical values is astounding. Math allowed for the earliest examples of democracy, as Ancient Greeks used tallies to calculate what they considered ‘the popular vote’. Math allowed for an object’s value to be determined vis-à-vis monetary currency, which is still seen today in exchange rates and the value of rare metals. Math has also been essential for measuring distances of faraway objects, and set the foundation for the modern concepts of time, as well as the principles of astronomy.

Finally, more complex forms of mathematics are used to calculate change and probability, and for many scientific minds, even the most minute aspects of daily life can be calculated as an exact science, no matter how random or unpredictable they might be perceived to be. As such, that expression that ‘math is everywhere’ is a much more accurate expression of human life that initially perceived.