the_dengle said:
Shall we go with the ancient Sumerians who created the first abacus, or can we go even deeper? |
The title question can be answered in many ways. Anything from gamers to bacterias originated from the hot springs deep in the ocean floor is one of many correct answers. But when it comes to giving the credit to a single person or company, I think that is too limited.
But mathemics is a subject humans have used to study form, quantity, change and so forth. All which are important to explain situations in nature, world, space and universe. And to create tools, build buildings, technology and more. If I would give credit to only one thing I would give it to mathematics. All science uses it. And after that comes, of course, imagination (which one could argue is most important and now that I think of it, it is) which includes fantasy and more (even mathematics). You could give the credit to human kind but in that case, the answer to these type of questions will always be "man".
But without mathematics you couldn't create the hardware or the coding for a game or the abacus.
I would say imagination, but that answer is too vague.
