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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.)