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The Old Babylonian Strassburg tablet seeks the solution of a quadratic elliptic equation
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Pythagoras founded the Pythagorean School of Mathematics in Cortona, a Greek seaport in Southern Italy. He is credited with many contributions to mathematics along with the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Heraclitus is a Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE, Heraclitus criticizes his predecessors and contemporaries for their failure to see the unity in experience.He claims to announce an everlasting Word (Logos) according to which all things are one, in some sense.
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Between 600 and 300 BC the Ancient Greeks began a systematic study of mathematics in its own right with Greek mathematics.
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The only two philosophical schools mentioned by name in the New Testament are the Stoics and the Epicureans, whom the apostle Paul encountered at the Areopagus in Athens.
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Thomas Aquinas in 1225 in Aquino, near Naples Italy. His father, a count of Aquino, was the aristocracy.
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Jamestown is the very first colony founded in the New World, led by John Smith.
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In 1637, René Descartes published La Géométrie, inventing analytic geometry and introducing modern algebraic notation. Another key event in the further development of algebra was the general algebraic solution of the cubic and quartic equations, developed in the mid-16th century.
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Abraham de Moivre states de Moivre's formula connecting trigonometric functions and complex numbers.
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Nearly 50,000 inhabitants of Messina died to the plague in 1743
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In the 18th century, Messina came under the rule of the Angevins, the Aragonese, and the Spanish Bourbons. A heroic insurrection against the Bourbons took place from 1774 to 1778.
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There is no specific history to when sequences were started although there was a young math student who created a formula to help solve for the sum of arithmetic sequences. His name was Carl Gauss, he was born in 1777 in a German Empire and at just ten years old he created arithmetic sequences.
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In the 18th century, Messina came under the rule of the Angevins, the Aragonese, and the Spanish Bourbons. A heroic insurrection against the Bourbons took place from 1774 to 1778.
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Immanuel Kant's most famous work is published in 1781
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Carl Friedrich Gauss proves the fundamental theorem of algebra (every polynomial equation has a solution among the complex numbers).
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Niels Henrik Abel proves that the general quintic equation is insoluble by radicals
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Galois theory is developed by Évariste Galois in his work on abstract algebra.
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Abraham Lincoln ran for president without a single Southern electoral vote, for he was against slavery.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Charles Hermite solves the general quintic equation by means of elliptic and modular functions.
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Both an Earthquake and Tsunami lay waste in Messina, destroying 90% of buildings.
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The Versailles Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918.
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Martin Heidegger, a student of Husserl, became his assistant at Freiburg in 1920 and succeeded him in 1927.
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As U.S. and British forces pushed hard through the island of Messina, it became the last bastion of German defenses and suffered significant bombing.
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Chinese mathematician Jia Xian finds numerical solutions of polynomial equations of arbitrary degree
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Berlin Papyrus 6619 (19th dynasty) contains a quadratic equation and its solution
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Berlin Papyrus 6619 (19th dynasty) contains a quadratic equation and its solution