Geometry Timeline

By keidraaa
  • 3000 BCE

    Egypt

    Egypt
    Egyptions developed rules to estimate & divide land areas & estimate volumes of objects. Egyption experts used to tighten ropes on the land to mark lines & circles. Egyption geometry experts were called "arpe donapti"
  • 1400 BCE

    Islamic

    Islamic
    one consequence of the Islamic prohibiton on depicting the human form was the extensive use of complex geomatric patterns to decrote their buildings. Al-Khwanzmi was one of the first directors of the house of wiselom, the word "algorithm" is derived from the latiniieation of his name and the word algebra.
  • 1000 BCE

    India

    India
    Mantras from the early Vedic period of ten from a hundred all the way up to a trillion, and provide evidence of the use of arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, squares, cubes and roots. The evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals describes a series of iterations in decreasing size, in order to demonstrate the size of an atom, which comes remarkably close to the actual size of a carbon atom (about 70 trillionths of a metre).
  • 600 BCE

    Classical Greek

    Classical Greek
    The ancient numeral system known as Attic or Herodianic were developed & in regular use as early as the 7th century BCE. Thales' Theroem was also established during this time period. His theory explained that when a triangle is drawn within a circle, with the long side as a diameter of the circle, then the opposite angle will always be a right triangle.
  • 539 BCE

    Babylonian

    Babylonian
    Sumerians develope writing & arithmetic using a 60 base number system. Babylonian math was beyond arithmetic which made them develope the basic ideas in # theory which were algebra & geometry. The Babylonians preserved there knowledge on clay tablets.
  • 330 BCE

    china

    china
    The first definitive work and the oldest in existence on the geometry of China was the ‘Mo Jing’. It was a compilation of work done by philosopher Mozi, produced after his death around 330BC.
  • 201 BCE

    Hellenistic Greek

    Hellenistic Greek
    Archimedes has a great legacy for figuring out the "Sieve of Eratosthenes" , which is a algorithm for identifying prime numbers. His algorithm explained that given a number n, print all primes smaller than or equal to n. It is also given that n is a small number. The sieve of Eratosthenes is one of the most efficient ways to find all primes smaller than n when n is smaller than 10 million or so

  • Middle ages 17 century

    Middle ages 17 century
    In the wake of the Renaissance, the 17th Century saw an unprecedented explosion of mathematical and scientific ideas across Europe, a period sometimes called the Age of Reason. The logarithm of a number is exponent when that number is expressed as a power of 10 or any other base.

  • 18th Century

    18th Century
    Largrange's mean value theorm states that for any section of a continous smooth curve Lagrange is also credited with the four-square theorm that any natural number can be represented as the sum of four square

  • 19th Century

    19th Century
    A quaternion as devised by William Hamilton can be used to transform one 3-D vector into another . August Feridinad Mobius is best known for his 1858 discovery of the mobius strip.

  • 20th Century to present

    20th Century to present
    Johann Gustav Hermes completed his construction of a regular polygon with 65,537 sides (216 + 1), using just a compass and straight edge. 1976 saw a proof of the four colour theorm by Kenneth Appel and wolfgang Haken the first major theorm to be proved using a computer

  • Resource page

    storyofmathematics.com
    geomhistory.com