History of Algebra by Darius Flontas

  • Egypt with numbers
    2700 BCE

    Egypt with numbers

    They use to write numbers with symbols, but now they write the numbers in a similar style of word text.
  • Babylonian
    1700 BCE

    Babylonian

    This person solve quadratic equations with completing the square.
  • Pythagoras
    540 BCE

    Pythagoras

    This Greek mathematician who used geometric, visual strategies to solve equations.
  • The Darius inscription
    516 BCE

    The Darius inscription

    Darius the Great made a monument on a rock cliff that would be 100 x 150 foot surface. This monument would be called “Mountain of the Gods”.
  • Diophantus of Alexandria
    200

    Diophantus of Alexandria

    This Greek mathematician who starts replacing statements with symbols.
  • Bhaskara
    598

    Bhaskara

    This person replaces unknown quantities with letters.
  • Muhammad
    780

    Muhammad

    He wrote a book that first contained the explanation of solving equations by doing the same operation on both sides.
  • Girolamo Cardano
    1501

    Girolamo Cardano

    Wrote a book that contains solutions to cubic and quadratic equations.
  • Francois Viete
    1540

    Francois Viete

    This person was the first one to replace variables by using letters and used + and - signs to replace addition and subtraction.
  • Evariste Galois

    Evariste Galois

    Group theory - solution to long-standing questions to see when algebraic equations can be solved by radicals.