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1800 BCE
Babylonian Math
Babylonians numbers used a true value system. Roman numerals were a familiar system, the Babylons developed another revolutionary mathematical concept. Babylonian Mathematics refers to mathematics developed in Mesopotamia, from the days of the early Sumerians to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC and is especially known for the development of the Babylonian Numeral System -
1200 BCE
Greek Hindu Math
Were responsible for another hugely import and development in mathematics. Brahmagupta established the basic mathematical rules. -
1200 BCE
Ancient Indian Math
Pythagorean Theorem was found at the 8th century BCE. Discovered the benefits of decimal place value. Indian mathematics emerged in the Indian subcontinent from 1200 BC until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 AD to 1200 AD), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara II. The decimal number system in use today was first recorded in Indian mathematics. -
810 BCE
Greek Arabic Math
Greece and India fuse together the mathematical developments. Mathematician Muhammad Al-Karaji worked to extend algebra. -
624 BCE
Greek Classical Math
Began to spread its sphere of influence into Asia Minor. The Attic or Herodianic numerals were fully developed by 450 BCE -
360 BCE
Greek Hellenistic Math
Alexander the Great, wake of his conquests in 3rd century BCE, During the 4th and 3rd century BCE Euclid was the great chronider of mathematics of time. -
300 BCE
Ancient Egyptian Math
The early Egyptians settled along the Nile river as early as 6000 BCE, they began to report patterns. The Pharaohs surveyors used measurements based on body parts. The Egyptians approximated the area of a circle by using shapes they know. Alongside the Babylonians and Indians, the Egyptians are largely responsible for the shape of mathematics as we know it. Their knowledge and techniques passed on to the Greeks, helping the Hellenes to develop their great store of mathematical knowledge. -
190
Ancient Chinese Math
They used Roman numerals, different numbers were believed to have a cosmic significance. But the main thrusts of Chinese mathematics developed in response to China's growing need. Mathematics in China emerged independently by the 11th century BC. The Chinese independently developed very large and negative numbers, decimals, a decimal system, a binary system, algebra, geometry, trigonometry. -
Jan 1, 1500
Islamic Math
During the 16th and early 17th Century, the equals, multiplication, division, radical (root), decimal and inequality symbols were gradually introduced and standardized. The use of decimal fractions and decimal arithmetic is usually attributed to the Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin the late 16th Century, although the decimal point notation was not popularized until early in the 17th Century. -
Jan 1, 1500
Renaissance Math
In Italy, during the first half of the 16th century, Scipione del Ferro and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia discovered solutions for cubic equations. Driven by the demands of navigation and a growing need for accurate maps across larger geographic areas trigonometry became an important branch of mathematics. Regiomontanus's table of sine and cosine was published in 1533 AD. Bartholomaeus Pitiscus was first to use the word trigonometry in his Trigonometria, 1595 AD. -
European Math
Most of the late 17th Century and a good part of the early 18th were taken up by the work of disciples of Newton and Leibniz, who applied their ideas on calculus to solving a variety of problems in physics, astronomy and engineering.
Joseph Louis Lagrange collaborated with Euler in an important joint work on the calculus of variation, but he also contributed to differential equations and number theory, and he is usually credited with originating the theory of groups. -
Modern Math
After the French Revolution, Napoleon emphasized the practical usefulness of mathematics and his reforms and military ambitions gave French mathematics a big boost, as exemplified by “the three L’s”, Lagrange, Laplace and Legendre (see the section on 18th Century Mathematics), Fourier and Galois.
The Frenchman Évariste Galois proved in the late 1820s that there is no general algebraic method for solving polynomial equations of any degree greater than four, going further than the Norwegian Neils -
Abstract Math
The eccentric British mathematician G.H. Hardy and his young Indian protégé Srinivasa Ramanujan, were just two of the great mathematicians of the early 20th Century who applied themselves in earnest to solving problems of the previous century, such as the Riemann hypothesis. Although they came close, they too were defeated by that most intractable of problems, but Hardy is credited with reforming British mathematics, which had sunk to something of a low ebb at that time.
