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TIMELINE OF MATHEMATICS SUMMARY Final

1) The earliest Egyptians began recording patterns of lunar phases and seasons for agricultural and religious reasons as early as 6000 BCE, developing one of the earliest numeration systems around 2700 BCE using hieroglyphic symbols. 2) Babylonian mathematics flourished from the 18th century BCE, containing "word problems" involving geometry and calculations in tablets. 3) Simple mathematics date back to 1600 BCE in ancient China, while mantras from 1000 BCE India provide evidence of arithmetic operations and advanced concepts. 4) Thales of Miletus in 624-548 BCE is considered the father of Greek mathematics, attributed with early theorems and introducing logical reasoning and proof.

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TIMELINE OF MATHEMATICS SUMMARY Final

1) The earliest Egyptians began recording patterns of lunar phases and seasons for agricultural and religious reasons as early as 6000 BCE, developing one of the earliest numeration systems around 2700 BCE using hieroglyphic symbols. 2) Babylonian mathematics flourished from the 18th century BCE, containing "word problems" involving geometry and calculations in tablets. 3) Simple mathematics date back to 1600 BCE in ancient China, while mantras from 1000 BCE India provide evidence of arithmetic operations and advanced concepts. 4) Thales of Miletus in 624-548 BCE is considered the father of Greek mathematics, attributed with early theorems and introducing logical reasoning and proof.

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Name: MAHENER, LUISA MAE

DULNUAN, RIZALYN
THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
SUMMARY
6000 BCE
THE EARLY EGYPTIANS
-They settled along the Fertile Nile Valley as early as about 6000 BCE and they began to record the
Patterns of Lunar phases and the seasons both for agricultural and religious reasons.

2700 BCE

WRITTEN EGYPTIAN NUMBERS


-It is thought that the Egyptians introduced the earliest fully-developed base 10 numeration system at
least as early as 2700 BCE (and probably much early). Written numbers used a stroke for units, a heel-bone
symbol for tens, a coil of rope for hundreds and a lotus plant for thousands, as well as other hieroglyphic
symbols for higher powers of ten up to a million.

2000-1800 BCE

ANCIENT EGYPT (OLDEST MATHEMATICS)


-The oldest mathematical text from ancient Egypt discovered so far, though, is the Moscow Papyrus,
which dates from the Egyptian middle kingdom around 2000-1800 BCE.

BABYLONIANS MULTIPLICATION TABLE


-Many of the mathematical tablets are "problem texts:" they contain problems or sets of problems,
sometimes with solutions. Many of the problems involve geometry; the rest are almost always "word
problems" where the context is the calculation of the area of an irregular field, the volume of a ditch, the
number of bricks to build a ramp, and etc.

1600 BCE

EARLY CHINESE
-Simple mathematics on Oracle bone script date back to the Shang Dynasty (1600–1050 BC). One of
the oldest surviving mathematical works is the Yi Jing, which greatly influenced written literature during the
Zhou Dynasty (1050–256 BC). For mathematics, the book included a sophisticated use of hexagrams. Leibniz
pointed out, the I Ching contained elements of binary numbers

1000 BCE

INDIAN MATHEMATICS
-Mantras from the early Vedic period (before 1000 BCE) invoke powers of ten from a hundred all the
way up to a trillion, and provide evidence of the use of arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction,
multiplication, fractions, squares, cubes and roots.

624-548 BCE

CLASSICAL MATHEMATICS (THALES OF MILETUS)


-Historians traditionally place the beginning of Greek mathematics proper to the age of Thales of
Miletus (ca. 624–548 BC). Little is known about the life and work of Thales, so little indeed that his date of
birth and death are estimated from the eclipse of 585 BC, which probably occurred while he was in his prime.
Despite this, it is generally agreed that Thales is the first of the seven wise men of Greece. The two earliest
mathematical theorems, Thales' theorem and Intercept theorem are attributed to Thales.
GREEK CLASSICAL MATHEMATICS
-Thales is also thought to be the earliest known man in history to whom specific mathematical
discoveries have been attributed. Although it is not known whether or not Thales was the one who introduced
into mathematics the logical structure that is so ubiquitous today, it is known that within two hundred years of
Thales the Greeks had introduced logical structure and the idea of proof into mathematics.

517 BCE

GREEK HELLENISTIC
-Most of the mathematical texts written in Greek have been found in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor,
Mesopotamia, and Sicily.

539 BC

BABYLONIAN MATHEMATICS
-Babylonian mathematics (also known as Assyro-Babylonian mathematics) was any mathematics
developed or practiced by the people of Mesopotamia, from the days of the early Sumerians to the fall of
Babylon in 539 BC. Babylonian mathematical texts are plentiful and well edited.

450 BCE

GREEK HELLENISTIC MATHEMATICS


-by the Hellenistic period, the Greeks had presided over one of the most dramatic and important
revolutions in mathematical thought of time the ancient Greek numeral system, known as attic or Herodianic
numerals, was fully developed by about 450 bce , and in regular use possibly as early as the 7th century BCE.

263 CE

CHINESE MATHEMATICS
-Among the greatest mathematicians of ancient China was Liu Hui, who produced a detailed
commentary on the “Nine Chapters” in 263 CE, was one of the first mathematicians known to leave roots
unevaluated, giving more exact results instead of approximations.

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