Timeline of mathematics

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A timeline of pure and applied mathematics

Contents

[edit] Before 1000 BC

[edit] 1st millennium BC

[edit] 1st millennium

[edit] 1000 - 1499

[edit] 16th century

  • 1501 - Nilakantha Somayaji writes the "Tantra Samgraha", which lays the foundation for a complete system of fluxions (derivatives), and expands on concepts from his previous text, the "Aryabhatiya Bhasya"
  • 1520 - Scipione dal Ferro develops a method for solving "depressed" cubic equations (cubic equations without an x2 term), but does not publish,
  • 1535 - Niccolo Tartaglia independently develops a method for solving depressed cubic equations but also does not publish,
  • 1539 - Gerolamo Cardano learns Tartaglia's method for solving depressed cubics and discovers a method for depressing cubics, thereby creating a method for solving all cubics,
  • 1540 - Lodovico Ferrari solves the quartic equation,
  • 1544 - Michael Stifel publishes "Arithmetica integra",
  • 1550 - Jyeshtadeva, a Kerala school mathematician, writes the "Yuktibhasa", the world's first calculus text, which gives detailed derivations of many calculus theorems and formulae
  • 1596 - Ludolf van Ceulen computes π to twenty decimal places using inscribed and circumscribed polygons,

[edit] 17th century

[edit] 18th century

[edit] 19th century

[edit] 20th century

[edit] 21st century

[edit] Note

  1. This article is based on a timeline developed by Niel Brandt (1994) who has given permission for its use in Wikipedia. (See Talk:Timeline of mathematics.)