05 The Oldest Object that Proves the Existence of a Method of Calculation

Abstract

Society we live in teaches us to think interdisciplinary, to move easily from one area to another and
successfully fulfill social roles we are ready. Interdisciplinary connections are not univocal,
meaning that the flow of information is one way for an activity; communication takes place in both
directions, from one activity to another and vice versa. Interdisciplinary approach assumes that any
educational discipline not a closed area, but can establish links between disciplines. The history of
mathematics is a field of study is an investigation into the origin of discoveries in mathematics and
in a broader sense, an investigation into the mathematical methods and notation of the past.
Mathematics is the oldest science, history stretching over several millennia and in many
geographical areas simultaneously in the Far East to Central America, and in Asia Minor and
Africa to Europe. With good reason, most researchers have considered the evolution of culture and
civilization that preceded the writing mathematics, since the discovery of bones with notches, which
dates back over 20,000 years BC Belgian geologist Jean de Heinzelin of Braucourt, in 1950, found
in volcanic ash on the bank of a lake in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, on the border between
Congo and Uganda, which later was called "bone / stick Ishango" more exactly two bones of about
10 to 14 inches, with multiple incisions and secured with a piece of quartz in the thin end of one of
the two bones. Notch, not random, are indicative of counting systems, in base 10, and some basic
arithmetic.