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Sep 23, 1048
1048 - Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was born in Persia in 1048 and was a mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was known for using a geometric approach to analyzing algebra problems and for solving cubic equations using line segments. -
Sep 23, 1170
1170 - Fibonacci
Leonardo Pisano (of Pisa), son of Gugliemo Bonacci, was born in Italy and became a mathematician mostly known as Fibonacci. He grew up in North Africa and learned the Hindu-Arabic system of mathematics from the Moors there. He may have been the first to introduce these advanced (for the times) ideas into European civilization and wrote a book called, “Liber Abacci” or book of the abacus. This book included the series of numbers that is now known as the Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci series. -
Sep 23, 1545
1545 - Ars Magna
Ars Magna (The Great Art) published in 1545 by Girolamo Cardano, included techniques for solving cubic (to the third power) and quartic (to the fourth power) equations. The solution for cubic equations was developed by Scipione del Ferro, then passed on to a student who provoked Niccolo Fontana (aka Tartaglia) to also develop the solution. Tartaglia then shared it with Cardano who eventually published it -
1637 - Analytic Geometry
Analytic Geometry developed by Descartes and Fermat merged geometry and algebra -
1770 - Elements of Algebra
Elements of Algebra is a mathematics textbook by mathematician Leonhard Euler, originally published circa 1765. His Elements of Algebra is one of the first books to set out algebra in the modern form we would recognize today. -
1798 - Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Elements of Algebra is a mathematics textbook by mathematician Leonhard Euler, originally published circa 1765. His Elements of Algebra is one of the first books to set out algebra in the modern form we would recognize today. -
0499 - Aryabhatiya
Aryabhata was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote a text in Sanskrit that is known as the Aryabhatiya. It was written in poetic verse. Through this text, Aryabhata became the father of the Hindu-Arabic system of numbering that we still use today -
780 - Al-Khwarzimi "Father of Algebra"
Al-Kwarizmi Bio
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was born in Khwarizm, Persia (now Uzbekistan) around the year 780. He is most famous for his book on algebra titled, “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”. He is considered to be the father of algebra because this book was the first about the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. -
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