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1650 BCE
Start of Mathmatics
The Rhind Papyrus is an ancient scroll that includes many different types of mathematics problems. It dates back to around 1650 BC. -
800 BCE
Baudhayana
Baudhayana, author of the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, a Vedic Sanskrit geometric text, contains quadratic equations, and calculates the square root of 2 correct to five decimal places -
300 BCE
Expression for geometric shapes
A geometric construction for the solution of the cubic is sought (doubling the cube problem). It is now well known that the general cubic has no such solution using Euclidean tools. -
250
Father of Algebra
Diophantus is called father of algebra especially for western historians. Developed the first thing of all the algebra. Began to replacing the latters in expression. -
820
Father of Modern Algebra
Al-kwarizmi wrote the book about algebra. It was more modern type of algebra. -
1300
Zhu Shijie
Chinese mathematician Zhu Shijie deals with polynomial algebra, solves quadratic equations, simultaneous equations and equations with up to four unknowns, and numerically solves some quartic, quintic and higher-order polynomial equations. -
1540
Viete
Viete (1540-1603) is father of modern algebra. He made algebra able to solve 2 or more -
1551
The word "Algebra" first used
Arabic word, 'Al Jabr', which means 'the reduction'. The word was first used as early as 1551. -
Kowa Seki
Japanese mathematician Kowa Seki, in his Method of solving the dissimulated problems, discovers the determinant, discriminant, and Bernoulli numbers. -
Leonhard Euler
Leonard Euler who was a swiss mathemeatician who published "The Elements of Algebra". His work is the building block of many important algebraic notations. The very basic algebraic formula involving x functions were notated by him.
