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1800 BCE
Babylonians
Babylonian clay tablets show problems that involved solving for a missing or unknown value. This is one of the first ways they wrote down equations. -
1800 BCE
Solving early Equations
The Old Babylonian Strassburg tablet seeks the solution of a quadratic elliptic equation. -
460
Developing and improving
Democritus made developments in geometry and fraction. -
Period: 780 to 850
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
His life was very fulfilling. He had many great accomplishments. HE DISCOVERED ALGEBRA. -
850
Solving More Problems
Persian mathematician al-Mahani conceives the idea of reducing geometrical problems such as duplicating the cube to problems in algebra -
1048
Omar Khayyam
He finds roots of cubic equations by line segments obtained by intersecting conic sections, but he could not find a formula for the roots. -
1557
First Equations
The first equation ever written was by Robert Recorde in his treatise The Whetstone of Witte -
Geometry and equations
In 1637, René Descartes published La Géométrie, inventing analytic geometry and introducing modern algebraic notation. Another key event in the further development of algebra was the general algebraic solution of the cubic and quartic equations, developed in the mid-16th century. -
Fathers of ALgebra
The fathers of Algebra are Abu Jaafar Mohammad Ibn Mousa Al Khwarizmi and Diophantus, they contributed to the second stage of algebra. -
Leonardo Fibonacci
He worked to find the solution of the equation x3+2x2+cx=d