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Math Trivia Questions and Facts

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Who were the first people to ever use negative numbers?

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Who were the first people to ever use negative numbers?
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The Chinese.
Negative numbers appear for the first time in Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art by Jiu Zhang Suan-Shu which was written in the period of the Han Dynasty. It was later picked up by Liu Hui who established the rules for the addition and subtraction of negative numbers.
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What is the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel Prize?

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What is the mathematical equivalent of a nobel prize?
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The Fields Medal.
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three or foud mathematicians under 40 years old at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, every four years. It is considered one of the highest honors for mathematicians and has been described as the Mathematician’s Nobel Prize.
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