History of Numerology
The Greek mathematician Pythagoras who lived 569-470 B.C. has been credited with what today has become the study of numerology, however there is another school of thought about this as the Hebrew Kabbala predates Ptrhagoras who is known as the father of numerology; he lived in Southern Greece where he taught and studied mathematics. One of the things that is known for certain about this man is that his teachings lead to a religious movement that was named Pythagorism that would spread throughout the Roman Empire. He believed that mathematics creates order out of chaos, and this is one of the principals that formed numerology.
Through history as numerology is a very old technique there have been different methods of reading numbers that date back thousands of years, there is proof of this in several different societies, China, Egypt, Greece and Rome. The early numerology readings were done orally as it was believed that this method of looking into a person's live was a very powerful and scared thing to have done.
The teachings of Pythagoras were later taken up by Plato and were found that they reinforced the writings of the Jewish Cabala. There was continued interest in numerology by Christian scholars such as St. Augustine, which led to a widespread use of numerology during the Renaissance period and numerology was as widely accepted by scholars as the common man as it was used.