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250
earliest forms of ALGEBRA are written
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500
Trigonometric functions are introduced
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500
Solar eclipse and lunar eclipse calculations
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Jan 1, 700
Quadratic equations
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Jan 1, 700
Volume of a sphere
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Jan 1, 1000
Law of Sines
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Jan 1, 1000
Pascal's Triangle
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Jan 1, 1100
foundations of analytical geometry and non-Euclidean geometry are formed
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Jan 1, 1100
proof for the Pythagorean Theorem
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Jan 1, 1300
important concepts of CALCULUS are discovered
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Jan 1, 1400
decimal fractions
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Jan 1, 1489
Use of positive (+) and negative (-)
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Jan 1, 1492
Use of decimal points
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Jan 1, 1501
foundation laid for DERIVATIVES
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LOAGARITHMS discussed
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Fermat's method of maxima and minima
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first use of the IMAGINARY NUMBER by René Descartes
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theory of PROBABILITY
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Isaac Newton works on fundamental theorem of calculus
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Differential equations
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Limits
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L'Hospital's Rule
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The use of π by William Jones for the first time
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Thomas Bayes proves Bayes' Theorem
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fundamental theorem of algebra
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Intermediate value theorem
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Prime number theorem
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Game theory
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π (Pi) is computed to 100,000 decimal places using an inverse-tangent identity and an IBπ is computed to 100,000 decimal places using an IBM-7090 computer
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exponential of a matrix
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a NEC SX-2 supercomputer is used to calculate π to 124 million decimal places
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a Hitachi 64-node supercomputer is used to compute π to 1241.1 billion digits
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Al-Khwarizmi, Persian father of algebra, introduces systematic techniques for solving linear and quadratice equations
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Defne the monomial: x, x^2, x^3,...
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Tangent, secant, and inverse functions
