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1800 BCE
Ancient Egypt
The Moscow Mathematical papyrus -
1800 BCE
Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll -
1800 BCE
Ancient Egypt
The Berlin papyrus 6619,written around 1800 BC -
1800 BCE
Ancient Egypt
The Reisner papyrus,dated to the early Twelfth dynasty of Egypt and found in Nag el-deir,the ancient town of Thinis. -
1000 BCE
India Math
Mantras from the early 1000 BCE invoke powers of ten from a hundred all the way up to a trillion -
600 BCE
Indian Mathematics
Between 600 and 300 BC the Ancient Greeks began a systematic study of mathematics in its own right with Greek mathematics -
539 BCE
Ancient Babylonian
Was any mathematics developed or practiced by the people of Mesopotamia, from the days of the early Sumerians to the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. Babylonian mathematical texts are plentiful and well edited. -
400 BCE
Classical Math
4th and early 3rd century BCE Euclid he created Geometry -
400 BCE
Classical Math
Archimedes devised the first system of latitude and longitude and calculated the circumference of the earth to a remarkable degree of accuracy -
400 BCE
Classical Math
5th and 4th centuries BCE the annexation of much of modern-day Greece by the Persian Empire and its subsequent independence -
300 BCE
Ancient Math
Mathematics,also known as the queen of sciences,permeates every area of our lives.Whether you are filling in your accounts,building a cabinet, or watching the stars,you are using mathematical principles laid down through the ages. -
300 BCE
Ancient Math
Along side the development of language, mathematics has shaped human civilization and has given us the mental tools to expand our knowledge in other areas. -
300 BCE
India Math
The farther of math in India,Aryabhata was the first great scientist astronomer and mathematician of ancient India -
100 BCE
Hellenistic
In the 1st century BCE Hero or Heron was another inventor best known mathematical circles, Triangles with integer sides and integer area -
11 BCE
Chinese mathematics
in China emerged independently by the 11th Century BC.The Chinese independently developed very large and negative numbers,decimals,a place value decimal system,a binary system, algebra,geometry and trigonometry -
Giovanni Saccheri
Was an italian who did early work on non euclidean geometry -
Leonhard Euler
invented mathematical functions , equations ,and calculus -
Gaspard Mange
the father of descriptive geometry and differential geometry in application -
Nikolai Lobacheusky
studied the concept of geometry an also was the first to published a paper on hyperbolic geometry -
Adrien Marie
made important contributions to many fields of math like differential equations, ballistics, and celestral mechanics -
Herman Grassman
was the creator of vector analysis and the vector interior and exterior -
Carl Friedrich Gauss
invented non eucliden geometry -
Janos Bolyai
a pioneer of non euclideen geometry by following in his father footsteps -
Bernhard Riemann
a developer of differential geometry named Riemann surfaces -
Felix Klein
Best known for his work on connections between geometry and group theory and also erlanger program -
David Hilbert
first to work on invariant theory and proved his famous basis theorem also did the most influential work in geometry since euclid -
G.H hardy
was known for his achievements of number theory and mathematical analysis -
Oswald Veblen
developed a system of axioms for geometry -
Julia Robinson
as a women she made a serious impact on mathematics and was president of the American mathematical society -
Andre Weil
received honorary membership in London , Royal , French , and American academy in mathematics -
Donald Coxter
Regarded as the major synthetic geometer of the 20th century and made contributions to the theory of polytopes -
Paul Cohen
a jewish mathematician winning prestigious field medals in mathematics as well as national medals
