Mathematics Timeline

  • 50,000 BCE

    Indians

    Evidence of counting
  • 22,000 BCE

    Indians

    Primitive geometry triangular designs
  • 2400 BCE

    Egyptian

    Rhiannon papyrus
  • 2000 BCE

    Egyptian

    Hieronymus l x this numerals Egypt
  • 1850 BCE

    Babylon

    Thanes of impetus native geometry
  • 1650 BCE

    Babylons

    Myth agree an arithmetic tic and geometry
  • 585 BCE

    every one that knew that the earth was not flat

    per men ides spherical earth
  • 263 BCE

    Chinese

    suite-s 3rd century Brahmagupta establish the basic mathematical rules for dealing quoth zero
  • 200 BCE

    Greeks

    written over a period of time from about 200 BC on words
  • Pierre de Fermat

    Fermat's last theorem has claimed to discover a proof that the Diophantine equation has no integer solutions for n>2 and y,y,z≠0
  • Rene Descartes

    Published his mathematical treatise “Discours de la Methode”
  • Blaise Pascal

    Invented Pascal’s triangle where each number is the sum of two numbers directly above it
  • Gottfried Wilhelmina Leibniz

    Invented Step Reckoner, a digital calculator
  • Isaac Newton

    Discovered calculus
  • Bernoulli Brothers

    Published “The Art of Conjecture”
  • Leonard Euler

    Discovered the calculation of infinite sums
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss

    Published “Disquisitiones Arithmeticae”
  • Evartise Galois

    Published his first paper on “Continued Fractions”
  • Bernhard Riemann Presented ideas on geometry for the official

    Presented ideas on geometry for the official Post doctoral qualification at Gottingen
  • A.N. Whitehead

    Published a Treatise on universal algebra
  • Bertram Russell

    Identified Russell’s Paradox
  • G.H. Hardy

    Completed his construction of a regular polygon
  • Srinivasa Ramanujon

    Published the “Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society”
  • David Hilbert

    Invented proof theory
  • Kurt Godel

    Published his two incompleteness theorems
  • Andre Weil

    Proof of Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curved over finite fields
  • Julia Robinson

    Published a paper on sequental analysis in statistics
  • Paul Cohen

    Developed a technique called forcing, which was used to prove that neither continuum hypothesis not the axiom of choice can be proved from standard zermelo-fraenkel axioms of set theory
  • You’re Matiyasevich

    Solved Hilbert’s tenth problem