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The Babylonians started thinking more flexibly with numbers and developing the equality notation of algebraic operations.
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This was a paper that was found from Egypt. It provided some insight on the work that Egyptians were working on such as linear equations.
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This was the year of the first recorded Ancient Olympic Games.
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This Indian mathematician created the place-value system we know today.
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Paper was invented in China for the first time.
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Pompeii was destroyed by the volcano Vesuvius in Italy.
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In his book, Arithmetica, the first to use words for unknown numbers as well as abbreviations for powers of numbers, relationships, and operations
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His work introduced the symbol for zero. He proved some of the essential properties of zero that are still important to us today: 1+ 0 = 1, 1-0= 1, 1*0= 0 and dividing by zero didn’t make sense.
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In this book, Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah, he published the hindu arabic numerals, which are the numbers 1-9 that we use today. His book is why we call Algebra what it is today. In it, he explains patterns that underline the mathematics and had new language to describe how math works.
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Leonardo of Pisa represented algebraic equations using purely words. This way of writing equations was called rhetorical. Eventually he began using abbreviations for some of the words, like square root.
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Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.
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Viete is known for introducing symbols for unknowns that we call today, variables.
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The first permanent colony on the Americas, Jamestown in Virginia, were settled in 1607.
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In his book, La Géométrie, Descartes was the first to introduce using x, y, and z as the variables used for unknowns. The known numbers, such as constants, were represented with letters in the beginning of the alphabet.
