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1800 BCE
Babylonian
The variables and equations are all on a clay tablet that the Babylonians wrote. Which all leads back to tables like multiplication tables. -
1650 BCE
Rhind Papyrus
Its a scroll that contains mathematical problems from 1650 BCE. You can find this in the Brooklyn Museum. -
900 BCE
Invention of the name
In the beggining of the ninth century, Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi (Hovarezmi) created the full name ilm al-jebr wa'l-muqabala which is the name for math solutions, comparisons and opposition. -
800 BCE
Algebra the real meaning
The word algebra actually means broken parts based on arabic language. Which makes sense because in algebra you're trying to find the unknown the variable. -
550 BCE
Greeks founders
Some may say that the Greeks founded algebra around the sixth century but this view has changed since the decoding of Rhind papyrus by Eisenlohr thinks this view is wrong. -
300 BCE
Ability to Solve
Egyptian mathematics-The ability to solve for unknowns in an equation involving other quantities was started by the Egyptians -
100 BCE
Chinese Algebra
People from China began to make there own type of Algebra around 100 BC. The people from China emphasized it and developed their own Algebra. Which is very similar to ours. -
1101
“Fathers of Algebra”
Diophantus made contributions to the second stage of algebra, later on. Abu created methods to simplify the equations first. -
1200
Geber a Moorish philosopher founder of Algebra
Geber a Morrish Philosopher is the founder of Algebra according to the 1911 encyclopedia. He also flourished around 11th or 12th century as a philosopher. -
When Algebra started being taught
Over the past 200 years algebra has started to emerge as a common thing to learn.
