How advanced was Mayan mathematics compared to Greece

was it on the same level as Ancient Greece

Other urls found in this thread:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_astronomy
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

They had advanced counting methods...but they didn't have the formalized mathematics that Greece had

Any books, records of Mayan mathematics? And if not is it because they didn't write it or because the church "lost" them because muh demon worshippers?

"The Maya used their familiarity with factors and multiples to avoid having to use fractions. Their extraordinary precise solar, lunar, and venus calendars demonstrate their proficiency with multiples"

I don't think we will ever really know considering the Spaniards habit of burning any traces of a local written language.

The Maya independently developed zero and by the first century BC were probably the most advanced astronomers in the world. Like the Babylonians and Greeks they were most interested in astronomy for the purpose of divination rather than any scientific purpose.

Most of our sources are inscriptions, but we have testimony from people like Fray Diego de Landa of the precision and sophistication of Mayan astronomy and calendars.

Mayans knew about 0 for one, Greeks didn't.

Well the Mayans discovered space travel by the Spanish Conquest so that should tell you something

Both of them are babby tier compared to Vedic mathematics, which are the secrets Indians used to rape everybody else in STEM

Greek, they had notions of fractions and geometry that exceed anything the Mayan had. They also had polynomials, number theory, proofs.

Mayan math is a meme. Zero hardly makes up for their highly primitive math capabilities.

People seem to forget that Mayan math is something historians are more likely to approach than mathematicians. Greek math is still valid and is used in modern mathematics.

Greek mathematics was different from mayan mathematics as they moved into the theoretical world and also into the world or proofs. The Greeks created most of the math that we still use today that wasn't created by Newton

>tfw they did this to every meso-american empire
>tfw we'll never know what happened to the Incan language EVER or even their written history

I like playing as Spain in AoE III but goddamn I'm glad their country is nothing but a fucking poverty stricken 2nd tier plot of land now.

Spain is quite a successful country

Then why are they moving to South America as economic migrants?

26 + 64 = 324 ???????????

Why are Brits moving to Australia as economic migrants despite Britain being one of the most successful countries in human history?
You're acting like poor people dont exist in every country or that a country has to have massive vacancies for every profession to be successful

You add the 6 in 26 to the 6 in 64
That adds up to 12. Move the 10 to the next place, which already has 2

324

This is elementary math, user

That's a funny way of spelling Leibniz.

But in seriousness, this. The Mayan skill for calendars might have been extraordinary, but the Greeks were the first to do what we would recognise as formal mathematics, and proofs due to Euclid and Archimedes are still taught

The math was good.

The astronomy was GOAT tier.

>Maya astronomy is the study of the stars, planets, sun, and other astronomical occurrences by the Precolumbian Maya Civilization of Mesoamerica. The Classic Maya in particular saw the Maya develop some of the most accurate pre-telescope astronomy in the world, aided by their fully developed writing system and their positional numeral system, both of which are fully indigenous to Mesoamerica. The Classic Maya understood of many astronomical phenomena: For example, their estimate of the length of the synodic month being more accurate than Ptolemy's,[2] and their calculation as to the length of the tropical solar year was more accurate than that of the Spanish when the latter first arrived.[3]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_astronomy

>their calculation as to the length of the tropical solar year was more accurate than that of the Spanish when the latter first arrived

Well, Newton is really the big guy (4u) when it comes to accrediting calculus.

Greeks created trig/geometry and Newton created calculus. That's just how books teach it.

WTF

You have two 18

You take one and get excess 8 and then what ?