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Where did numbers come from?

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Where did numbers come from?

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284 Views • Mar 23, 2016

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Where did math come from? Which numbers arose first? Did math develop the same way across cultures? While the details are fuzzy, history shows that if people have ever needed to count something, they developed some form of mathematics. Journalist and moderator Robert Krulwich and the expert panel of the Mathematical Universe weigh in on the origin story of the oldest, most pervasive, abstract language.