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1200 BCE
Bhāskara II
He was the first Ancient Indian mathematician. He used the decimals system and evidently was the first to gain some understanding of the meaning of division by zero. Bhāskara II was the lineal successor of the noted Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598–c. 665) as head of an astronomical observatory at Ujjain, the leading mathematical centre of ancient India. -
1200 BCE
Al-Samawʿal
Al-Samawʿal gave a definition for algebra. He continued and completed the work of al-Karajī in algebra and also provided a systematic treatment of decimal fractions as a means of approximating irrational quantities. He helped develop numeral algorithms. -
100 BCE
Early Math In China
The Chinese began to publish their own algebra writings around 100 BC. Wang Xiaotong, a Chinese mathematician, found numerical solutions to some cubic equations. He became interested in mathematics at a young age, and flourished through the years. He presented his work to Li Yuan, the first emperor. -
1535
Math in Italy
Scipione del Ferro and Niccoló Fontana Tartaglia independently solved a general cubic equation for algebra in Italy in 1535. Famous Ancient Italy mathematicians include Galileo Galilei, who was born in 1564, Evangelista Torricelli who was born in 1608, and Maria Gaetana Agnesi who was born in 1718. -
Classical Algebra
The Babylonians developed the first classical algebra, and started using variables to solve for the unknown. They also started to use formulas and equations. They started to add in variables into the equations, introduced by Rene Descartes. -
Thomas Harriot
Thomas Harriot invented greater and less signs in 1631. He was an English mathematician. He thought it was best for the signs to look like this: < or >, which means the same as greater or less than. -
Rene Descartes
French mathematician who introduced variables. He also knew geometry and knew the rules of the signs for curtain equations like a polynomial equation. In the development of modern mathematics, Descartes is also known today as a great philosopher. -
Modern Algebra
Modern algebra was a very complicated study of abstract ideas on topics like boolean algebra. Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra were the values of the variables. There is also topics like matrix multiplication which is a type of operation. There are many branches in modern algebra and Niels Henrik Abel was one of the people who helped develop one of those branches. -
Niels Henrik Abel
Approved that the general quintic equation couldn't be solved with radicals. He also developed several branches of modern mathematics. His talent in math was recognizes in 1817 where he began to study what his teacher introduced him to, which was classic mathematics. -
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether extended David Hilberts theory on on the finite basis problem representations of finite groups over fields. She was a German mathematician who innovations in higher algebra gained her recognition as the most creative abstract algebraist of modern times.Noether was certified to teach English and French in schools for girls in 1900, but she instead chose to study mathematics.
