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3000 BCE
Hieroglyphic numerals
Hieroglyphics used in Egypt as a form of recording numbers. Hieroglyphics were based on things in an Egyptians everyday life. -
2500 BCE
Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid of Giza created. -
1650 BCE
Rhind Papyrus
The Rhind Papyrus was a mathematical text which was purchased by Henry Rhind in 1858. In the papyrus was written by the the Scribe Ahmose. It was likely used as a mathematical text with problems and examples written down for various subjects.
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753 BCE
Founding of Rome
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Period: 569 BCE to 475 BCE
Pythagoras
He was born on the island of Samos, Greece. He founded a philosophical and religious school. Students of his school became known as Pythagoreans. Pythagoras has received create for the work of the Pythagoreans. Some of their theories are:
- The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right triangles.
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450 BCE
Greeks use Numerals
Greeks begin to use written numerals. -
427 BCE
Birth of Plato
Plato founded the Academy in Athens, Greece. -
387 BCE
Plato's Polyhedra
Plato identifies five polyhedra which is now known as the Platonic Solids. -
300 BCE
Euclid's Elements
The Elements, is a book discussing Euclidean geometry. It is a collection of 13 books of definitions, postulates, and axioms. -
287 BCE
Birth of Archmiedes
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250 BCE
Diophantus' Arithmetica
Diophantus was a Greek mathematician. In his Arithmetica he explains his use of symbols for an unknown. He also discusses its powers, and some arithmetic operations. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diophantus -
250 BCE
Volume of a Cylinder
Archimedes the formula for how to determine the volume of a cylinder. -
212 BCE
Death of Archimedes
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210 BCE
Great Wall of China Begun
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200 BCE
Area and Circumference of a Circle
Archimedes developed the area and circumference of a circle. -
150 BCE
Ptolemy's Almagest
Almagest was an astronomical manual. It is divided into 13 books. Throughout the books Ptolemy uses math to explain different astronomical phenomena. It also describes how to construct different instruments to help. -
44 BCE
Death of Julius Caesar
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518
Pythagorean Theorem
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641
Library at Alexandria burned
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830
Al-Khowarizmi's Algebra
His book is considered to be the foundational text of modern algebra, although it does not look like any type of algebra we use today. This is because he used words to explain the problem and diagrams to solve it. -
1202
Fibonacci's Liber abaci
Written by Fibonacci in 1202, in it he introduced the decimal number system. https://plus.maths.org/content/life-and-numbers-fibonacci -
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Rene Descartes
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Newton's Principia
A book written by Newton in which he introduces his three laws of motion.
1. Everybody continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
2. The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed, and is made in the direction of the straight line in which that force is impressed.
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Symbol for pi introduced
William Jones is believed to be the first person to use the symbol for pi. He used it in his second book Synopsis Palmariorum Mathematics, or A New Introduction to the Mathematics, which was based on his teaching notes. -
Period: to
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gauss is known for developing the Gauss method. It is a methos for adding large amounts of consecutive numbers when he was six years old. His most important accomplishment would be non-Euclidean Geometry. Non-Euclidean Geometry is geometry that is not based on the postulates of Euclid. This includes times when the parallel postulate is not true. The Parallel Postulate states through a given point not a line, there is one and only one line parallel to it.
