Sounds fascinating. So how is math the history of civilization? I read a book about zero that went into its role as a crucial innovation and a contentious idea. My favorite base is 12.
Discussion
Each rising civilization has a corresponding rise in the use and understanding of mathematics. And each mathematical system which emerges contains echos of the culture, how they thought, and the problems they were solving.
Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman…
Im partial to the Mayan base 20.
Just because it grew independent of the worlds major empires, and even had representation for zero.