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3000 BCE
Ancient / Egypt (3000 BC - 500 BC)
Egypt had methods to solve areas and volumes for different types of objects or shapes.
Some of their methods were correct but others were nearly there but not exactly correct.
The Egyptian number systems were not well suited for arithmetical calculations. -
2000 BCE
Ancient / Babylon (2000 BC - 500 BC)
Babylonian mathematics was most based on arithmetic.
They created basic ideas in number theory, algebra, and geometry.
Some of their methods were used to solve specialized equations. -
1500 BCE
India (1500 BC - 200 BC)
the Indians were using place value number system when they discovered it early.
They did some upgrading and perfected the decimal place value number system.
Indians were important for another huge famous development in mathematics. -
624 BCE
Thales of Miletus (624-547 BC)
One of the Seven pre-Socratic Sages, and brought the science of geometry from Egypt to Greece.
Thales was known to the very first Greek philosopher.
Thales traveled to Egypt to introduce his studying of Geometry into Greece.
Born in Asia Minor in about 624 BC.
Died somewhere around 547 BC in Miletus, Asia Minor -
325 BCE
Euclid of Alexandria (325-265 BC)
Born somewhere around 325 BC.
Died in Alexandria, Egypt in about 265 BC.
Euclid of Alexandria is the most famous mathematician of antiquity.
He is mostly known for his work on mathematics called
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287 BCE
Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC)
Born in Syracuse, Sicily in 287 BC.
Died in Syracuse, Sicily in 212 BC
He is considered one of the greatest Greek mathematicians.
He also invented mechanical devices such as screw, pulley, and a lever. -
200 BCE
Ancient / China (200 BCE)
The use of abacus was mostly the Chinese idea even when they were used in different places.
The main part of Chinese mathematics was developed in response in the need of growing the empire for mathematically competent administrators. -
190 BCE
Hipparchus of Rhodes (190-120 BC)
Born in Nicaea in 190 BC.
Possibly died in Rhodes, Greece in 120 BC.
He was the first to observe the "foundations of trigonometry" and also a possibility that he invented it.
He only posted several books of trigonometric and ways to calculate them. -
10 BCE
Herons of Alexandria (10-75 AD)
Possibly born in Alexandria, Egypt in AD 10.
Died somewhere around AD 75.
Heron of Alexandria was a major geometer and worker in mechanics.
He wrote something called "Metrica", total of 3 books and included methods for computing areas and volumes. -
8 BCE
Middle Ages / Islamic (8th Century)
Both Greece and India, Islamic were able to draw on and put together the mathematical developments.
In over time Muslims artists learned all types of different forms of symmetry that can be depicted on a 2-dimensional surface.
The mathematics of Islamic grew throughout the medieval period from 9th to 15th centuries. -
7 BCE
Greek / Classical (7th Century)
The Greeks were smart enough to adopt and become adjusted to useful elements.
Their numeral system was known as Attic or Herodianic numerals.
Most of the Greek's mathematics were based on Geometry. -
7 BCE
Greek / Hellenistic (3rd Century)
Euclid was one of the greatest mathematics at the time during the early 3rd and the late 4th century.
Euclid, Archimedes, and Diophantus were among the most known mathematicians who studied and taught at Alexandria.
Archimedes is now one of the greatest mathematician of all time. -
Middle Ages / 17th Century
17th century saw an amazing blast of mathematical ideas crosswise over Europe.
However, credit should go out to a few 17th century mathematicians whose worth of effort partially anticipated.
Scientist were making discoveries of the Solar system leading to formulation of mathematical laws of planetary motion . -
Middle Ages / 18th Century
Part of the 18th century were full on work of disciples of Newton and Leibniz.
Basel used to be also the hometown concerning the greatest over the 18th century mathematicians.
Many other important mathematicians were beyond France. -
Middle Ages / 19th Century
The 19th Century noticed a remarkable increase in the breadth and complexity over mathematical principles.
The two countries France and Germany treated mathematics quite differently.
Throughout the 19th century, mathematics in general grew to be permanently extra complex or abstract. -
Modern / 20th century to present
There are at least 11 mathematicians in the entire 20th century.
The 20th century continued the trend in the 19th century closer towards to increasing generalizations and abstractions in mathematics. -
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