History of mathematics facts for kids
History of mathematics is how mathematics has developed over time. Early maths by Babylonians and Egyptians was built upon by Greeks such as Euclid, Archimedes, Pythagoras and Eratosthenes. Other important figures include Fibonacci, Descartes, Leonhard Euler, Blaise Pascal and Gauss.
Images for kids
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Geometry problem on a clay tablet belonging to a school for scribes; Susa, first half of the 2nd millennium BCE
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Image of Problem 14 from the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus. The problem includes a diagram indicating the dimensions of the truncated pyramid.
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One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100. The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.
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Apollonius of Perga made significant advances in the study of conic sections.
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Title page of the 1621 edition of Diophantus' Arithmetica, translated into Latin by Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.
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The Haghia Sophia was designed by the Greek mathematicians Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus.
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Counting rod numerals
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The Tsinghua Bamboo Slips, containing the world's earliest decimal multiplication table, dated 305 BC during the Warring States period
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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, one of the earliest surviving mathematical texts from China (2nd century AD).
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The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE.
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Page from The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing by Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (c. AD 820)
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Nicole Oresme (1323-1382), shown in this contemporary illuminated manuscript with an armillary sphere in the foreground, was the first to offer a mathematical proof for the divergence of the harmonic series.
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Leonhard Euler by Emanuel Handmann.
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The Babylonian mathematical tablet Plimpton 322, dated to 1800 BC.
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Explanation of the sine rule in Yuktibhāṣā
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Portrait of Luca Pacioli, a painting traditionally attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, 1495, (Museo di Capodimonte).
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The absolute value of the Gamma function on the complex plane.
