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The Beginning of Numbers

Math and the Rise of Civilization

Season 1Episode 1Aired 2011-12-19
The Beginning of Numbers

The Beginning of Numbers

The narrator takes the spectator on a journey from the pyramids to the bed of the Nile, demonstrating the need to maintain social and geographical stability after the Nile's annual floods. The Inundation is a driving force for the development of numbers and early geometry.