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Egyptian base 10 counting system is recorded. A royal mace located today at Oxford details counting of prisoners in the hundred thousands and goats in the millions.
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Early form of Abacus in use in China.
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The Great Pyramid of Gizeh is built in Egypt.
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Not entirely different from the Rhind Papyrus this was written by an unknown scribe who details mathematics in everyday Egyptian life.
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Babylonian Tablets dealing with first quadratic equations.
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The original Labyrinth is constructed.
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Egyptian Mathematician/Scribe. Used value of 3 1/6 for pi.
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Also called Ahmes Papyrus for the scribe, this was a copy of the record of Egyptian mathematics up to this point. Contains our knowledge of their methods and practices.
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Written Chinese numerals in use during Yin Dynasty.
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Chinese mathematicians use an early form of systems of equations.
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Place holding values conceptualized. ca. 1250-1200
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Mathematician from 800-740 BC author of an early Sulbasutras.
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(750 BC - 690 BC) Author of the Hindu geometric Sulbasutras.
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ca. 625-550 theorems and proofs of triangles, circles, and squares are recorded.
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(624 BC - 546 BC) Mathematician who developed a theorem of angles being 90 degrees when inscribed in a circle and having two points lie on the circle's diameter.
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Tarquinius Priscus introduces calendar for all of Rome.
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(580 BC - 520 BC) Known for the theorem of right triangles named after him. Lead the cult of his name where an original proof of the theorem came from.
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(520 BC - 460 BC) Essential contributor to Greek mathematics.
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Fundamental theorem of right angled triangles equating the square of the hypotenuse with the sum of the squares of the two smaller sides.
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Greek Geometers grapple with the sqrt(2) which can be constructed but not written as a fraction.
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Symbol of zero is used as a placeholder.
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(490 BC - 430 BC) Developed several paradoxes of infinity.
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The concept of infinity and infinitesimals are philosophized into paradoxes of the time.
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(428 BC - 347 BC)
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Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euclid set the precedent and expectation of rigorous mathematical proofs. Rigor of Euclidean Geometry established. ca. 400-350 BC
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Conical Volume and similarly difficult volumes to compute are worked out.
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(384 BC - 322 BC) Key contributor to Greek Mathematics, Philosophy, and Rigor.
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(356-323 BC) Tutored by Arstotle, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
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(325 BC - 265 BC) Euclidean Geometry named after him.
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(287 BC - 212 BC) A major player in the development of mathematical proof, scientific thought, and math as a tool of explaining natural phenomena.
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Chinese develop methods of solving systems with matrices.
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Built along Mongolian boarder, largest construction effort in China.
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(85 AD - 165) Mathematician and Astronomer
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Death of Caesar
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Zero as more than just a pace holder by the Mayans- far separate from the Babylonians.
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(10 AD - 75) Attributed with a method for calculating digits of irrational numbers, such as sqrt(2).
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(220 - 280)
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The Chinese prove how far ahead in mathematical practice they were by developing a form of differential equations solved by tools of calculus.
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(335 - 395)
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First denotations of triangle side length ratios as sine, cosine, tangent, secant.
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(411 - 485)
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(430-501) Chinese Astronomer who worked out 6 decimal places of pi.
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(505 - 587)
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(598 - 670)
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rigor applied to +, -, 0 early identities worked out in India.
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(790 - 850)
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(800 - 870)
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The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing by al-Khwarizmi
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(850 - 930)
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Persia saw the rise of rigorous proof by induction.
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Persia again saw major thinking advances by recognizing the link of algebra and geometry.
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(1170-1250) An early proponent of number sequences.
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(1202-1261)
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(1238-1298)
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Advanced Scholarly work and general literacy.
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(1452-1519)
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(1470-1530)
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(1473-1543) Used mathematical reasoning to create the heliocentric model of the solar system.
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(1510-1558)
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(1526-1573)
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Introduction of the Complex Plane onto the Real Number Line
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(1546-1601)
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1550-1617
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Recorde introduces the equals sign.
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(1564-1642)
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(1571-1630)
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(1588-1640)
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(1596-1650)
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Invention and extensive calculation of logarithms and log tables by John Napier.
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The first principle of relativistic thinking.
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(1601-1665)
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(1608-1647)
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(1627-1691)
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(1629-1695)
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Oughtred developes the slide rule.
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(1635-1703) Bitter rival of Newton.
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(1643-1727) Credited as Inventor of Calculus, Father of Physics, Laws of Motion, Optics, Springs. The Everything Man.
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(1646-1716) Co Inventor of calculus, his notation exists to this day.
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The rigorous development of the 2 plane coordinate system by Descartes.
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The first occurrences of probabilistic thinking applied to games of chance.
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(1654-1705)
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Wallis introduces the modern infinity symbol.
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(1656-1742)
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(1661-1704)
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Newton is at it again.
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(1667-1754)
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(1667-1748)
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(1685-1731) Father of series manipulation of the same name, Taylor Series.
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Published the invention of calculus and many, many other theories.
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(1687-1759) More Brothers Bernoulli.
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(1690-1764) Famous for a conjecture proved by Mathis.
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(1698-1746) Another master series manipulator.
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(1700-1782) Never leave out a Bernoulli.
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(1702-1761)
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(1707-1783) Euler is the greatest mathematician of all time with more published work in more fields than anyone else, and is credited with more modern day notation than anyone else including e for the natural logarithm and sigma for summation.
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(1710-1790) Yet another Bernoulli.
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(1717-1783) d'Alembert wishes he was named Euler.
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Euler first publishes work using the modern symbol for pi.
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(1736-1813)
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(1736-1806)
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(1749-1827)
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(1759-1789)
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(1768-1830)
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(1775-1836)
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(1777-1855)
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Euler dies.
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(1784-1846)
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(1790-1868) Strip!
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(1791-1867)
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(1792-1856)
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Metric System first introduced.
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(1802-1860)
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(1815-1864)
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(1815-1852)
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(1819-1868)
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Formally Abstracted.
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(1822-1911)
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Invented by Gauss, Lobachevsky, Bolyai, and Taurinus.
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(1824-1907)
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(1826-1866)
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(1831-1879)
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(1839-1903)
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First computer program is written.
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(1841-1908)
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(1845-1918)
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(1845-1912)
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Algebra as applied to logical thinking.
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(1848-1911)
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(1849-1925) Klein, like trapped in a bottle!
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(1852-1939)
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(1854-1912) Poincaré made a conjecture that was recently proven, and the rest is beyond me.
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(1860-1937)
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(1861-1941)
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Term coined by Klein.
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(1875-1959)
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Cash register is invented along with the light bulb.
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(1879-1955)
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Lindemann proves pi is transcendental.
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(1887-1961)
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(1887-1920) Ramanujan died far too young.
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Gauss and other Germans rigorously develop Matrix Algebra.
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(1892-1945)
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Rigorous development of the theory and processes of analysis.
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(1896-1962)
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(1902-1983)
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(1902-1984) Dirac "guessed" his equation according to Feynman.
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(1906-1978)
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(1910-1990) Collatz made a conjecture.
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(1912-1954) Nicknamed "The Enigma".
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(1918-1988) Feynman developed QED.
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Development of Game Theory, whatever it really is!
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(1953- . . . .)
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Microsoft founder born.
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Backus develops an early computer language.
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Speech by JFK declaring the race to the moon.
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(1966- . . . .)
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Texas Instruments develops first hand held electronic calculator.
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Mandelbroit develops theory of fractal geometry.
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(1975- . . . .) Tao the last great modern mathematician?
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17 year old Colin Percival finds five trillionth binary digit of pi.
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A prime number with 2,098,960 digits is found.
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Clay Math Institute proposes unsolved problems with a $1 million dollar prize for proving or disproving.