Ryan Young's History of Algebra

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  • Rhind Papyrus
    1650 BCE

    Rhind Papyrus

    First example of algebra: occurred in Egypt and Babylon.
  • Pythagoreans
    430 BCE

    Pythagoreans

    Discovery that that not all lengths are measurable by the common unit
  • Diophantus
    250

    Diophantus

    First to introduce systematic symbolism for polynomial equations
  • Brahmagupta
    598

    Brahmagupta

    Discovered equations with more than one variable
  • Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote his famous treatise al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala
    825

    Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote his famous treatise al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala

    this treatise contained all the findings of algebra
  • Albert Giard

    Albert Giard

    Discovered that “every polynomial with real number coefficients could be expressed as the product of linear and quadratic real number factors or, alternatively, that every polynomial equation of degree n with complex coefficients had n complex roots. “- Brittanica
  • Algebra is taught in schools

    Algebra is taught in schools

    Algebra is first taught in schools
  • Traité des substitutions et des équations algebriques was written

    Traité des substitutions et des équations algebriques was written

    This published the theory of permutation groups
  • Flex Klien

    Flex Klien

    Made a speech about how algebra applies to geometry
  • Algebra is taught as regular curriculum in all schools

    Algebra is taught as regular curriculum in all schools