A history of Mathematics

  • 3000 BCE

    Beginning of geometry

    Geometry began in the ancient Indus valley
  • 2000 BCE

    The begging of finance

    Traders using grain loans in Assyria and Babylonia.
  • 1650 BCE

    Egyptian Algebra

    Written equations with solutions and proofs
  • 1637 BCE

    Variables

    René Descartes
  • 1397 BCE

    First bank establied

    The Medici bank in Italy
  • 830 BCE

    Algebra works

    Arabic word algebra from Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī,
  • 500 BCE

    Statistics in Athens

    Athenians used statistic tools to calculate the height of a wall
  • Geometry developments

    analytic geometry and projective geometry
  • Origin of probability

    The odds of a Greek came of chance
  • Burnoulli

    The proven law of large numbers
  • The doctrine of Chances

    How to calculate probabilities
  • The development of calculus

    17th century calculus that helped solve geometry problems
  • The beginning of graph theory

    Euler and the seven bridges
  • Achenwall

    written works designates statistics to states
  • Geometry in Astronomy

    Laplace used applications of geometry to predict orbits
  • Statiscs society

    In this year the royal statistical society was formed
  • non-eludician geometry

    Riemann developed intrinsic geometry (of smooth surfaces)
  • Experiments in statistics

    two textbooks that emphasized the importance of random based inference
  • Hilbert's Axioms

    David Hilbert's axioms in geometry
  • The second wave of statistics

    Models, experiments, testing hypothesis
  • Fisher and Neyman

    Created a mathematical foundation for probability through hypothesis testing
  • Third wave of statistics

    Jerzy Neymans work of refining earlier developments
  • Graph theory and topology

    Graph theory is worked back into topology from different contributors
  • Terminology of graph theory is born

    Cayley works published to create a fusion of mathematics and chemistry
  • Publsihing of first Graph theory textbook

    written by Denes Konig
  • Geometry in the 20th century

    developments of algebraic geometry
  • Definitive textbook on graph theory