The Start of Everything - the Fact-orials Table of Contents

Background

Not to sound trite or corny, but there was a time where our ancestors were mostly concerned with surviving - the time and effort (much less the brain power) needed to begin wondering about Life, Death, the Universe, and Everything In It, was just not important. Life was a struggle - wondering and thinking about things other than survival were a waste.

But as man evolved, as society developed, and as survival was no longer a 24/7 challenge, there was time to sit and wonder, to think, to speculate. Stories emerged to help explain some of the mysteries of life, such as the origin of the earth, the existence of different species and how they came about, the seasons, and more.

From those questions and the resulting answers came more questions and yet more answers. And so on. This is still the status quo of humanity - continually developing new social structures, new ways to understand self, the environment, the Universe, and everything within it.

It's from these first thoughts that Fact-orials tries to start - to follow the paths where human thought and endeavour have sprung and where they've gone.

Let's follow some paths.

One set of paths we can follow is the use of numbers to record, transmit, discover, and predict information:

Math Fact-orials - the story here starts with The Number 1, mathematical tools are developed to analyze many different aspects of the Universe.

• Accounting Fact-orials - starting with The Start of Accounting, numbers and math are used to describe financial information about an entity

Vocabulary used:

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The Story of Mathematics

Where might you have come from?

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Where might we go?

• Accounting Fact-orials
• Math Fact-orials