History of Algebra

By Kruegerm2
  • 1800 BCE

    Babylonian Algebra

    Babylonian Algebra
    Babylonian Algebra was more advanced than the egyptians. They recorded using clay tablets. Like the Egyptians their equations were rhetorical.
  • 1650 BCE

    Ancient Egyptian algebra

    Ancient Egyptian algebra
    Early Algebra has been traced back to ancient civilizations such as egypt and babylon. These equations were written on papyrus. The Equations were rhetorical
  • 600 BCE

    Greek Algebra

    The greeks learned algebra from the egyptians. The greeks improved upon the egyptians algebra.
  • 200 BCE

    Diophantus’s arithmetica

    Diophantus’s arithmetica
    Diophantus an alexandrian “father of algebra” writes his famous arithmetic, a work featuring solutions of algebraic equations and on the theory of numbers.
  • 568

    Algebra In india

    Indian mathematicians developed their own system and incorporated decimals.
  • 700

    The Bakhshali manuscript

    The bakhshali manuscript written india uses a form of algebraic notation using letters of the alphabet and other signs.
  • 800

    Al-Khwarizmi

    Al-Khwarizmi
    The word algebra means the reunion of broken parts, and was first used around 800 AD by arabic scholer.
  • 825

    Islamic contributions to Algebra

    Mathemeticion Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote a book that improved further on past systems .
  • 1540

    Francois Viete

    Francois Viete
    Francois viete stats using letters to replace variables and uses the +/- Signs to represent addition and subtraction

  • Theorem of algebra

    Theorem of algebra
    German Mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss proves the fundamental theorem of algebra.