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Calculation, geometric calculations, painful experimentation, similar mathematic ideas, to delve, sexagesimal numeral system, measurements, obvious, to diverge development.
3. Дайте английские эквиваленты следующим словам и выражениям:
Метод проб и ошибок, пытливые умы, точно вести запись, сделка, цифровая система, небесные тела, зачатки математики, повлиять на развитие, отследить, объём знаний, унаследовать, невероятные изобретения, в некоторой степени, решать уравнение.
Соотнесите слова с их определениями.
| 1. calculator | a. the process of learning something that was not known before, or of finding someone or something that was missing or hidden |
| 2. computer | b. what someone knows about a particular subject |
| 3. invention | c. a small piece of electronic equipment used for doing calculations |
| 4. knowledge | d. a machine that stores programs and information in electronic form and can be used for a variety of processes, for example writing, calculating, and communicating on the Internet |
| 5. discovery | e. a machine, tool, or system that someone has made, designed or thought of for the first time |
Заполните пропуски в предложениях словами из рамки.
| principles sexagesimal progression tedious trial and error scientific influence knowledge development areas discoveries |
1. We learned mathematics from books and teachers; they developed mathematics through ………..
2. Small steps by numerous people from numerous cultures over thousands of years directed the ………. of mathematics.
3. This necessity expressed itself in numerous ……….: in agriculture, business, and industry.
4. Only a few cultures directly affected the ………. that we can now trace backwards from modern mathematics.
5. The Babylonian system of mathematics was ………. (base 60) numeral system
6. Many ………. giants came from this Greek culture and with them their great discoveries.
7. Next in the line of significant ………. came the Indian mathematicians to whose credit the current numerical system we have labeled "Arabic numerals".
8. Finally came the Arabic/Islamic ……….
9. Nonetheless, this does not imply that these mathematic ………. are obvious.
10. Even now, mathematicians continue to expand our extent of ………. concerning mathematics upon the ideas of the past.
