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===Before 1000 BC=== ===Before 1000 BC===
* ca. ] — South Africa, ochre rocks adorned with scratched ] patterns (see ]).<ref>, Sean Henahan, January 10, 2002.</ref>{{dead|date=October 2015}} * ca. ] — South Africa, ochre rocks adorned with scratched ] patterns (see ]).<ref>, Sean Henahan, January 10, 2002. {{wayback|url=http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SU/caveart.html |date=20080719073344 }}</ref>
* ca. ] to ] — Africa and France, earliest known ] attempts to quantify time.<ref>, ], </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/lebombo.html|title=OLDEST Mathematical Object is in Swaziland|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html|title=an old Mathematical Object|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> * ca. ] to ] — Africa and France, earliest known ] attempts to quantify time.<ref>, ], </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/lebombo.html|title=OLDEST Mathematical Object is in Swaziland|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html|title=an old Mathematical Object|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref>
* c. 20,000 BC — ], ]: possibly the earliest reference to ]s and ]. * c. 20,000 BC — ], ]: possibly the earliest reference to ]s and ].

Revision as of 17:46, 27 October 2015

This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history.

Rhetorical stage

Before 1000 BC

Syncopated stage

1st millennium BC

1st millennium AD

Symbolic stage

1000–1500

Modern

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

Contemporary

20th century

21st century

See also

References

  1. Art Prehistory, Sean Henahan, January 10, 2002. Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. How Menstruation Created Mathematics, Tacoma Community College, (archive link).
  3. "OLDEST Mathematical Object is in Swaziland". Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  4. "an old Mathematical Object". Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  5. ^ "Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora". Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  6. Carl B. Boyer, A History of Mathematics, 2nd Ed.
  7. Corsi, Pietro; Weindling, Paul (1983). Information sources in the history of science and medicine. Butterworth Scientific. ISBN 9780408107648. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  8. Victor J. Katz (1998). History of Mathematics: An Introduction, p. 255–259. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-01618-1.
  9. F. Woepcke (1853). Extrait du Fakhri, traité d'Algèbre par Abou Bekr Mohammed Ben Alhacan Alkarkhi. Paris.
  10. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu l'Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad Al-Nasawi", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  11. ^ Arabic mathematics, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  12. ^ Various AP Lists and Statistics
  13. Paul Benacerraf and Hilary Putnam, Cambridge University Press, Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings, ISBN 0-521-29648-X
  14. Elizabeth A. Thompson, MIT News Office, Math research team maps E8 Mathematicians Map E8, Harminka, 2007-03-20
  15. Laumon, G.; Ngô, B. C. (2004), Le lemme fondamental pour les groupes unitaires, arXiv:math/0404454
  16. "UNH Mathematician's Proof Is Breakthrough Toward Centuries-Old Problem". University of New Hampshire. May 1, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  17. Announcement of Completion. Project Flyspeck, Google Code.
  18. Team announces construction of a formal computer-verified proof of the Kepler conjecture. August 13, 2014 by Bob Yirk.
  19. Proof confirmed of 400-year-old fruit-stacking problem, 12 August 2014; New Scientist.
  20. A formal proof of the Kepler conjecture, arXiv.
  21. Solved: 400-Year-Old Maths Theory Finally Proven. Sky News, 16:39, UK, Tuesday 12 August 2014.
  22. "y-cruncher - A Multi-Threaded Pi Program". numberworld.org. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  • David Eugene Smith, 1929 and 1959, A Source Book in Mathematics, Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-64690-4.

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