There is no concrete evidence to say who invented Math. Many people around the world have contributed to what is today known as Mathematics. Since math is a scientific study of numbers, structures, space and rate of change, different cultures have been maintaining their dominance over a particular field of mathematics. Indians, Chinese, Arabians, Mayans, Greeks and Europeans have been masters of a particular field of maths. No single person or a culture could be attributed for the mammoth growth that maths have seen recently.


But, the number systems that we study today are said to have originated in ancient India and ancient Greece. The Arabian travellers who travelled to these cultures at that time took these numbers systems to their countries. From there, Europeans are said to have taken to their countries for their uses in their trade and commerce.


There is a message coming around the mathematicians that Algebra was invented by Arabic scholar Al-Khwarizmi during the eight century. Al-Khwarizmi is treated as the Father of Algebra for his enormous work on, knowledge of and contribution to the world of Algebra. Although many countries are said to have used the algebraic methods, it was only Al-Khwarizmi who have taken immense pain to organise the field of Algebra.


Although math was invented a long time back, it is only recently that math, as it is today, gained a great momentum of growth, because of proper and scientific studies conducted by various scholars around the world.


There are various mathematicians who contributed in a great deal to what we study as mathematics.


Isaac Newton, Pierre de Fermat, Carl Gauss, Lagrange, Archimedes, Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, Alex. Grothendieck, Euclid, David Hilbert, Bernhard Riemann, Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan, Bhaskara, Aryabhata, Satyendranath Bose and Henri Poincaré are few of the world mathematicians who have contributed to mathematics.























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