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Hieroglyphics used in Egypt as a form of recording numbers. Hieroglyphics were based on things in an Egyptians everyday life.
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Great Pyramid of Giza created.
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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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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:
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Greeks begin to use written numerals.
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Plato founded the Academy in Athens, Greece.
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Plato identifies five polyhedra which is now known as the Platonic Solids.
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The Elements, is a book discussing Euclidean geometry. It is a collection of 13 books of definitions, postulates, and axioms.
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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
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Archimedes the formula for how to determine the volume of a cylinder.
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Archimedes developed the area and circumference of a circle.
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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.
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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.
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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 synthesized algebra and geometry by placing points on a coordinate plane.
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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.
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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.
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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.
