>>10663186*Egyptians and Sumerians are the first civilizations that had a writing we can decipher. Mathematics results were used for thousand years by neolithical cultures and even earlier but we know next to nothing about it. They used it for pracitcal problems such land survey, grain couting, building, astrology (also related to agriculture) ... just as in Sumer and Egypt. I think the most important thing we got from Sumer is the sexagesimal division of time (since they counted on base 60).
>What?I mean we haven't big names associated with it like Pythagoras or Thales, because they usually didn't record their "scientists" as they did with their kings. It applies to an extent to their literature which is largely anonymous.
