Ryan Young's History of Algebra

Rhind Papyrus

1650 BCE

First example of algebra: occurred in Egypt and Babylon.

Pythagoreans

430 BCE

Discovery that that not all lengths are measurable by the common unit

Diophantus

250

First to introduce systematic symbolism for polynomial equations

Brahmagupta

598

Discovered equations with more than one variable

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote his famous treatise al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala

825

this treatise contained all the findings of algebra

Albert Giard

1629

Discovered that “every polynomial with real number coefficients could be expressed as the product of linear and quadratic real number factors or, alternatively, that every polynomial equation of degree n with complex coefficients had n complex roots. “- Brittanica

Algebra is taught in schools

1726

Algebra is first taught in schools

Traité des substitutions et des équations algebriques was written

1870

This published the theory of permutation groups

Flex Klien

1872

Made a speech about how algebra applies to geometry

Algebra is taught as regular curriculum in all schools

2018