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Period: 2000 BCE to 500 BCE
Babylonians
Ancient clay revealed Babylonians knew the Pythagorean relationships -
Period: 2000 BCE to 500
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Egyptians demonstrated a practical knowledge of Geometry -
Period: 2000 BCE to 500 BCE
Greeks
Ancient Greece practiced for centuries. First formal mathematics of any kind. -
Period: 400 BCE to
Fifth postulate controversety
2 mathematical rules, postulates, and theorms. Euclid gave five postulates -
300 BCE
Father of Geometry
Greek mathematican often reffered as the "Founder of Geometry" -
Period: 190 BCE to 120 BCE
Hippichrus
Developed first accurate star map -
Period: 34 BCE to
Search for Pi
present and known for centuries of ratio, diameter, and circumference of a circle is constant -
Period: 780 to 850
al-Khwarizimi
First one to use letter in Algebra -
Coordinate Geometry
Descrates connected algebra and geometry. Conceived the idea of points located on a plane with a pair of numbers. -
Period: to
Blaise Pascal- French
Pascals principle of pressure
laid foundation for modern theory of probabilites -
Period: to
Rene Descrate "Creation of Coordinate Plane"
Revolutionized mathematics provided first systematic link between Euclidean Geometry and Algebra -
Period: to
Gottfried Wihleim Lebniz
Developed monumental mathematics theories. He also speculated on the universe, physics, and other human philoisophy -
Period: to
Pierre- Simon Laplace
Pioneer of statistics, discovered the existence of black holes, and systemizing probability theory -
Period: to
William Playfair- Scottish
Inventor of the line graph, bar graph, and pie chart
Pioneered the timeline -
Period: to
Charles Babbage-English
First mechanical computing device -
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Described idea of of parrallelism -
Period: to
Fractal Geometry
Fractals geometric figures that model many natural structures like ferns or clouds -
Period: to
Defferential Geometry
Differential geometry combines geometry with techniques of calculus to provide a method for curved surfaces -
Period: to
James Maxwell- Scottish
classical electromagnetic theory -
Period: to
David Hilbert- German
Patron saint of Math Teachers
One of the founders of the proof theory
In 1900 created legendary collection of 23 unsolved problems -
Period: to
Kurt Goedel
imcompleteness theorm -
Period: to
Alan Turing British
Laid ground work for PC
Cracked the Enigma- a mechanical device used by the German army to encade secure messages in WWII -
Period: to
Stephen Hawking
Famed for his work with black holes and relativity
physicist