The history of algebra

By zxcvbnm0713
  • 30,000 BCE

    The first math

    Palaeolithic peoples in central Europe and France record numbers on bones.
  • 5000 BCE

    Pre-dynastic Egyptian and Sumerian mathematics

    Pre-dynastic Egyptians and Sumerians showed geometric designs on their artefacts as early as the 5000 BC.
  • 4000 BCE

    The start of the Babylonian and Egyptian calendar

    The calendar was a 365 year calendar that had 3 seasons that had 120 days in it, and another one with 5 in it.
  • 3400 BCE

    The use of straight lines in Egypt.

    The straight lines were the first symbols for numbers in Egypt.
  • 3000 BCE

    The invention of abacus

    It was a device for math that used beads on a string or balls or stones in grooves.
  • 3000 BCE

    The use of sexageimal in babylon.

    Sexagesimal is a number system for recording financial transactions.
  • 2000 BCE

    The adoption of algebra and geometry.

    The Babylonians replaced the Sumerians, which had already developed writing and a number system based of 60 numbers, the Babylons adopted these two things and they went beyond the 60 numbers and developed basic ideas in number theories, algebra, and geometry.
  • 1850 BCE

    Ahems papyrus

    Ahems wrote the which contains the rule of division and has 87 problems on it.
  • 1750 BCE

    Anons papyrus

    Anon wrote the Moscow Papyrus, which had 25 problems and solutions, and contained the rule for division.
  • 1500 BCE

    The Sulbasutras

    This was used to make sacrificial altars to please the gods, and the mathematical accuracy was very important.
  • 800 BCE

    Baudhayana

    He was the first known author of the earliest Sulbasutras.
  • 700 BCE

    Manava

    Contains approximate constructions of circles.
  • 465 BCE

    The writing of the “ sphere of the 12 pentagons ” [ dodecahedron ]

    A regular polyhedron with 12 faces each of which is a pentagon.