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The Rhind Papyrus is an ancient scroll that includes many different types of mathematics problems. It dates back to around 1650 BC.
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Baudhayana, author of the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, a Vedic Sanskrit geometric text, contains quadratic equations, and calculates the square root of 2 correct to five decimal places
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A geometric construction for the solution of the cubic is sought (doubling the cube problem). It is now well known that the general cubic has no such solution using Euclidean tools.
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Diophantus is called father of algebra especially for western historians. Developed the first thing of all the algebra. Began to replacing the latters in expression.
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Al-kwarizmi wrote the book about algebra. It was more modern type of algebra.
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Chinese mathematician Zhu Shijie deals with polynomial algebra, solves quadratic equations, simultaneous equations and equations with up to four unknowns, and numerically solves some quartic, quintic and higher-order polynomial equations.
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Viete (1540-1603) is father of modern algebra. He made algebra able to solve 2 or more
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Arabic word, 'Al Jabr', which means 'the reduction'. The word was first used as early as 1551.
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Japanese mathematician Kowa Seki, in his Method of solving the dissimulated problems, discovers the determinant, discriminant, and Bernoulli numbers.
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Leonard Euler who was a swiss mathemeatician who published "The Elements of Algebra". His work is the building block of many important algebraic notations. The very basic algebraic formula involving x functions were notated by him.
