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3000 BCE
Egyptian Number System
The ancient Egyptians improved their tally system by choosing more number symbols and stringing. These were called the hieroglyphic -
2000 BCE
Babylonian Number System
Their number system was based on two wedge-shapes symbols, known as cuneiform -
600 BCE
Thales
The first to have a theorem named after him -
400 BCE
Democtricus
Made many discoveries in geometry -
400 BCE
Mayan Number System
Their number system had two symbols. A dot that represented 1 and a bar that presented the number 5. These were written veritcally. -
350 BCE
Plato
Discovered the 5 Platonic solids -
300 BCE
Aristotle
Considered geometry and arithmetic the two most important mathematical sciences. -
300 BCE
Euclid of Alexandria
Known for The Elements that introduced Euclidean geometry
He gave the proof for the fundamental theorem of arithmetic -
150 BCE
Diophantus
Known for Diophantus equations -
127 BCE
Hipparchus
The father of trigonometry -
400
Hypatia
Know for her work in math textbooks
redefined several scientific instruments -
400
Roman Numerals
Their number system included letters that all had different values and only certain letters could be paired with certain letters. -
520
Aryabhata
Know as the father of Indian Mathematics and his approximation of pi (62832/20000), -
600
HIndu-Arabic Number System
This our everyday numbers we use in our everyday lives. -
628
Brahmagupta
Known for the introduction to the symbol for zero -
820
Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi
The Father of Alegbra
Known for his book Ab-Jar
Developed a method for solving linear & quadratic equations. -
1202
Leonardo Pisano
Developed Fibonacci sequence
Popularized the Arabic number system -
1535
Tartaglia
Known for his discovery of the solution to the cubic equation -
1580
Viète
Has been called the Father of modern algebraic notation -
Pierre de Fermat
Discover Fermat's last Theorem -
Sir Isaac Newton
The father of Calculus -
Euler
Discovered e as the base for natural logs -
Goldbach
Known for the Goldbach conjecture that was made to Euler. -
Euler
He was the first to introduce the notation for a function f(x) -
Carl Friedrich Gauss
invented the idea of congruences in numbers what he called modulos.