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1894 BCE
The Babylonians
Babylonia is an ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. -
250 BCE
Diophantus
Is sometimes called “the father of algebra”, and wrote an influential series of books called the “Arithmetica”, a collection of algebraic problems which greatly influenced the subsequent development of number theory -
100 BCE
The Chinese
The Chinese began to publish their own algebra writings. -
800
Arabic scholars
The word was first used by Arabic scholars around 800 AD, and is still used in our language today. -
820
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī is a Persian Muslim scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad who produced works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography during the Abbasid Caliphate -
870
Thābit ibn Qurra
lived in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age. He is credited with important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy. -
1200
Fibonacci
he travelled around North Africa with his father, where he learned about Arabic mathematics. On his return to Italy, he helped to disseminate this knowledge throughout Europe -
1570
François Viète
New algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, with innovations such as the use of letters as parameters in equations -
Seki Takakazu
Hence, a target of Seki and his contemporary Japanese mathematicians was the development of general multi-variable algebraic equations and elimination theory -
Évariste Galois
In mathematics, more specifically in abstract algebra, Galois theory, named after Évariste Galois, provides a connection between field theory and group theory
