Thoth the God of Mathematics and Learning
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The name Thoth means 'Truth' and 'Time'. In Egyptian mythology Thoth was the originator of order - like a master architect who invented all structure of our world, based on a balance of bad and good forces. He was known also as the first being who could measure, and therefore is identified with Geometry or Mathematics. Thoth is sometimes called also "the measurer of this earth". He is said to have "calculated the heaven and counted the stars", and to have "calculated the earth and counted the things which are in it". Thoth is also known as Tehuti, or Theth. His later 'incarnation' is Hermes (Greek mythology) or Mercury (Romans).
Topics on Egyptian mathematics
An Egyptian scribe from the Fourth Dynasty. The word scribe is applied to clerks, copyists and, more importantly to the class of bureaucratic officials on whom the whole Egyptian system was based. They were an elite who passed their profession from father to son. Scribes were very powerful, or so we think now, as the popularity of the scribe statues overtakes popularity of any other statues apart from god forms.
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