Geometry Timeline

  • Ancient Egypt
    1800 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    The Moscow Mathematical papyrus
  • Ancient Egypt
    1800 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll
  • Ancient Egypt
    1800 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    The Berlin papyrus 6619,written around 1800 BC
  • Ancient Egypt
    1800 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    The Reisner papyrus,dated to the early Twelfth dynasty of Egypt and found in Nag el-deir,the ancient town of Thinis.
  • India Math
    1000 BCE

    India Math

    Mantras from the early 1000 BCE invoke powers of ten from a hundred all the way up to a trillion
  • Indian Mathematics
    600 BCE

    Indian Mathematics

    Between 600 and 300 BC the Ancient Greeks began a systematic study of mathematics in its own right with Greek mathematics
  • Ancient Babylonian
    539 BCE

    Ancient Babylonian

    Was any mathematics developed or practiced by the people of Mesopotamia, from the days of the early Sumerians to the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. Babylonian mathematical texts are plentiful and well edited.
  • 400 BCE

    Classical Math

    4th and early 3rd century BCE Euclid he created Geometry
  • Classical Math
    400 BCE

    Classical Math

    Archimedes devised the first system of latitude and longitude and calculated the circumference of the earth to a remarkable degree of accuracy
  • 400 BCE

    Classical Math

    5th and 4th centuries BCE the annexation of much of modern-day Greece by the Persian Empire and its subsequent independence
  • 300 BCE

    Ancient Math

    Mathematics,also known as the queen of sciences,permeates every area of our lives.Whether you are filling in your accounts,building a cabinet, or watching the stars,you are using mathematical principles laid down through the ages.
  • 300 BCE

    Ancient Math

    Along side the development of language, mathematics has shaped human civilization and has given us the mental tools to expand our knowledge in other areas.
  • India Math
    300 BCE

    India Math

    The farther of math in India,Aryabhata was the first great scientist astronomer and mathematician of ancient India
  • Hellenistic
    100 BCE

    Hellenistic

    In the 1st century BCE Hero or Heron was another inventor best known mathematical circles, Triangles with integer sides and integer area
  • Chinese mathematics
    11 BCE

    Chinese mathematics

    in China emerged independently by the 11th Century BC.The Chinese independently developed very large and negative numbers,decimals,a place value decimal system,a binary system, algebra,geometry and trigonometry
  • Giovanni Saccheri

    Giovanni Saccheri

    Was an italian who did early work on non euclidean geometry
  • Leonhard Euler

    Leonhard Euler

    invented mathematical functions , equations ,and calculus
  • Gaspard Mange

    Gaspard Mange

    the father of descriptive geometry and differential geometry in application
  • Nikolai Lobacheusky

    Nikolai Lobacheusky

    studied the concept of geometry an also was the first to published a paper on hyperbolic geometry
  • Adrien Marie

    Adrien Marie

    made important contributions to many fields of math like differential equations, ballistics, and celestral mechanics
  • Herman Grassman

    Herman Grassman

    was the creator of vector analysis and the vector interior and exterior
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss

    Carl Friedrich Gauss

    invented non eucliden geometry
  • Janos Bolyai

    Janos Bolyai

    a pioneer of non euclideen geometry by following in his father footsteps
  • Bernhard Riemann

    Bernhard Riemann

    a developer of differential geometry named Riemann surfaces
  • Felix Klein

    Felix Klein

    Best known for his work on connections between geometry and group theory and also erlanger program
  • David Hilbert

    David Hilbert

    first to work on invariant theory and proved his famous basis theorem also did the most influential work in geometry since euclid
  • G.H hardy

    G.H hardy

    was known for his achievements of number theory and mathematical analysis
  • Oswald Veblen

    Oswald Veblen

    developed a system of axioms for geometry
  • Julia Robinson

    Julia Robinson

    as a women she made a serious impact on mathematics and was president of the American mathematical society
  • Andre Weil

    Andre Weil

    received honorary membership in London , Royal , French , and American academy in mathematics
  • Donald Coxter

    Donald Coxter

    Regarded as the major synthetic geometer of the 20th century and made contributions to the theory of polytopes
  • Paul Cohen

    Paul Cohen

    a jewish mathematician winning prestigious field medals in mathematics as well as national medals