History of Algebra by Darius Flontas

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  • 2700 BCE

    Egypt with numbers

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

    Babylonian

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

    Pythagoras

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

    The Darius inscription

    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”.
  • 200

    Diophantus of Alexandria

    Diophantus of Alexandria
    This Greek mathematician who starts replacing statements with symbols.
  • 598

    Bhaskara

    Bhaskara
    This person replaces unknown quantities with letters.
  • 780

    Muhammad

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

    Girolamo Cardano

    Girolamo Cardano
    Wrote a book that contains solutions to cubic and quadratic equations.
  • 1540

    Francois Viete

    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.