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History of Algebra - Aidan Flores

  • Babylonian Algebra
    3000 BCE

    Babylonian Algebra

    Babylonians were able to find unknown variables.
  • Egyptian Algebra
    2000 BCE

    Egyptian Algebra

    Egyptians did algebra on a rhind papyrus to find more complex variables.
  • Diophantus
    250 BCE

    Diophantus

    He wrote a series of books called Arithmetica when he wrote symbols representing variables.
  • Jain Algebra
    150 BCE

    Jain Algebra

    Jains write the Sthananga Sutra which talked about the theory of numbers and other equations.
  • Hero of Alexandria
    1 CE

    Hero of Alexandria

    The hero of Alexandria references square roots of negative numbers.
  • Al-Khwarizmi
    820

    Al-Khwarizmi

    First to teach algebra in an elementary state and introduced hindu-arabic numerals wrote the “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing” where he talked about algebraic equations.
  • The Dark Ages
    1450

    The Dark Ages

    Printing press is invented in Europe allowing them to translate arab equation.
  • Girolamo Cardano
    1501

    Girolamo Cardano

    Girolamo wrote on probability and a book on the rules of algebra.
  • Start of Modern Algebra

    Start of Modern Algebra

    There was communication of modern ideas of algebra and finding variables.
  • Modern Algebra

    Modern Algebra

    Math became a profession and people started practicing modern algebra.