Sebastian Garcia Timeline

  • The Babylonians
    1894 BCE

    The Babylonians

    Babylonia is an ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
  • Diophantus
    250 BCE

    Diophantus

    Is sometimes called “the father of algebra”, and wrote an influential series of books called the “Arithmetica”, a collection of algebraic problems which greatly influenced the subsequent development of number theory
  • 100 BCE

    The Chinese

    The Chinese began to publish their own algebra writings.
  • Arabic scholars
    800

    Arabic scholars

    The word was first used by Arabic scholars around 800 AD, and is still used in our language today.
  • Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
    820

    Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

    Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī is a Persian Muslim scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad who produced works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography during the Abbasid Caliphate
  • 870

    Thābit ibn Qurra

    lived in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age. He is credited with important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy.
  • Fibonacci
    1200

    Fibonacci

    he travelled around North Africa with his father, where he learned about Arabic mathematics. On his return to Italy, he helped to disseminate this knowledge throughout Europe
  • François Viète
    1570

    François Viète

    New algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, with innovations such as the use of letters as parameters in equations
  • Seki Takakazu

    Hence, a target of Seki and his contemporary Japanese mathematicians was the development of general multi-variable algebraic equations and elimination theory
  • Évariste Galois

    Évariste Galois

    In mathematics, more specifically in abstract algebra, Galois theory, named after Évariste Galois, provides a connection between field theory and group theory