History of Logarithms

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  • Period: 776 BCE to 393

    First Olympic Games

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)
  • Period: 560 BCE to 480 BCE

    Life of Pythagoras

    (McKay, Module, 1)
  • Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE

    Life of Socrates

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)
  • 400 BCE

    Hippocrates tries to solve cubic equations

    (ACE, Module 3).
  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Life of Aristotle

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)
  • Period: 325 BCE to 265 BCE

    Life of Euclid

    Euclid never mentions any of Pythagoras' work. (Boelkins, 2019)
  • Period: 287 BCE to 212 BCE

    Life of Archimedes

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)
  • Period: 1170 to 1250

    Life of Fibonacci

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)
  • Period: 1540 to

    Life of Francois Viete

    Viete came up with the Trigonometric solutions for cubic equations
    (ACE, Module 3).
  • 1544

    Michael Stifel coined the term "exponent"

    (ACE, Module 4)
  • 1550

    Girolamo Cardano derives his formula for solving cubic equations.

    (ACE, Module 3)
  • Period: to

    Life of Fermat

    (Mathigon, 2021)

  • John Napier developed the algebraic concept of Logarithms

    (ACE, Module 4).

  • First discussion of natural logarithms

    (ACE, Module4)

  • Joost Burgi developed the geometric concept of Logarithms

    (ACE, Module 4)
  • Period: to

    Life of Pascal

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)

  • Napier and Henry Biggs collaborate about Logarithms

    (ACE, Module 4)
  • Period: to

    Life of Newton

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)

  • Rene Decartes establishes modern exponential notation

    (ACE, Module 4)
  • Period: to

    Life of Euler

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)
  • Period: to

    Life of Gauss

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)
  • Period: to

    Life of Wilhelm Jordan

    (Althoen et al, p.131)

  • Einstein's Theory of Relativity

    (Timeline Index, n.d.)