Algebra

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  • 1800 BCE

    Problem Solving in Babylon

    Problem Solving in Babylon
    Babylonian mathematics dates from as early as 1800 BC, as indicated by cuneiform texts preserved in clay tablets. Babylonian arithmetic was based on a well-elaborated, positional sexagesimal system—that is, a system of base 60, as opposed to the modern decimal system, which is based on units of 10.
  • 1650 BCE

    Problem Solving in Egypt

    Problem Solving in Egypt
    The earliest extant mathematical text from Egypt is the Rhind papyrus and other texts attest to the ability of the ancient Egyptians to solve linear equations in one unknown. Today Linear equations would be known as something like 7x+3x=10
  • 900 BCE

    India

    India
    The Indian mathematicians, Brahmagupta (AD 598–670) and Bhaskara II (AD 1114–1185), had invented the use of the Decimal to mathematics. A full-fledged decimal, positional system certainly existed in India by the 9th century
  • 825 BCE

    Islamic Contributions

    Islamic Contributions
    Baghdad had written his famous treatise, which is a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached.
  • 430 BCE

    Pythagoreans

    Pythagoreans
    One of the biggest milestones for the Greek was when the Pythagoreans had discovered that not all lengths are measured by a common unit.
  • 250 BCE

    Diophantus

    Diophantus
    Diophantus was the first to introduce some kind of systematic symbolism for polynomial equations. A polynomial equation is composed of a sum of terms, in which each term is the product of some constant and a nonnegative power of the variable or variables. He has also written 13 books which he called Arithmetica.
  • 1545

    Cardano and the solving of cubic and quartic equations

    Cardano and the solving of cubic and quartic equations
    Girolamo Cardano wrote the Ars Magna which contains the Renaissance era’s most systematic and comprehensive account of solving cubic and quartic equations.

  • Classical Algebra

    Classical Algebra
    François Viète marks the start of the classical discipline of algebra in the 16th century.

  • Analytic Geometry

    Analytic Geometry
    Analytic algebra was created by two French thinkers Pierre de Fermat and Rene Descartes in the 17th century. They solved geometric problems that had remained unsolved since the time of the classical Greeks.

  • Bartel van der Waerden,

    Bartel van der Waerden,
    A dutch mathematician had published a textbook named Moderne Algebra and had written stuff that presented a whole new image on the field of study.