Timeline 1 + 2 instalmments
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Updated: 13 Sep 2023
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Created byDennis Startsev (LemooreKurat)
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Hammurabi developed his code of lawsThe Babylonians started using a place-holder symbolJulius Caesar was assassinated in RomeCharlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman EmpireThe Normans defeated the Saxons at the Battle of HastingsAl-Khwärizmï's writings were translated into Latin and spread throughout EuropeMahavira treated zero as a numberColumbus discovered AmericaThomas Harriot proposed his technique for solving equationsGalois, Abel, and others began to generalize the number systemsSurvived mathematical textsThe oldest artifact foundThe Nine Chapters on the Mathematical ArtInvert And MultiplyThe Tenth, by Simon StevinFormation of FractionsNicolaus Copernicus published his theory of the solar systemWilliam Harvey demonstrated the circulation of bloodJohn Wallis claimed that negative numbers were larger than infinityBenjamin Franklin published Experiments and Observations on ElectricityAlfred Nobel invented dynamiteJohann Lambert (Germany); Provied that pi is an irrational numberPeriods
The Great Pyramids were built in Gizeh, EgyptIndian mathematicians developed the base-ten place value systemThe American Revolution beganThe Civil War was fought in the United StatesZero as a numberUse of horizontal line for fractionsPer 100Arithmetical Use of FractionsMichael Stifel regarded negative numbers as fictitiousRené Descartes called negative solutions falseJohannes Kepler stated his laws of planetary motionThe French Encyclopédie expressed ambivalence about the nature of negative numbersCharles de Coulomb established laws of electric and magnetic forcesAugustus De Morgan labeled negative solutions as inconceivableDevelopment of Ballistics (1775-1783)Surveying and MappingTelegraphy and Cryptography (1861-1865)Balloon Corps and Aerial Reconnaissance (1861-1865)Discovery of Irrational Numbers by Pythagoreans (5th century BC)
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