Date |
Log |
Event |
Date Added |
325BC |
|
Euclid born |
Sept 04/05 |
265BC |
. |
Euclid dies |
Sept 04/05 |
1323 |
. |
Nicole d' Oresme born |
Sept 04/05 |
1382 |
. |
Nicole d' Oresme dies |
Sept 04/05 |
1564 |
. |
Galileo born |
Jan 22/05 |
1596 |
. |
Rene Descartes born |
Jan 21/05 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1601 |
. |
Pierre Fermat born (founder of modern number theory) |
Oct 4/05 |
1632 |
. |
Galileo publishes "The Two Chief Systems" |
Jan 22/05 |
1637 |
. |
Descartes publishes "La Geometrie" |
May2/05 |
1642 |
. |
Galileo dies |
Jan 21/05 |
1642 |
. |
Isaac Newton born |
Jan 21/05 |
1646 |
. |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz born in Leipzig, Germany |
Jan 21/05 |
1650 |
. |
Rene Descartes dies |
Apr 29/05 |
1665 |
. |
Fermat dies |
Oct 4/05 |
1687 |
. |
Newton publishes The Principia |
Jan 21/05 |
1694 |
. |
Leibnitz introduces the term function |
May 7/05 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1707 |
. |
Leonhard Euler born in Basel, Switzerland |
Jan 22/05 |
1734 |
. |
Euler introduces the function notation y = f(x) |
May 7/05 |
1736 |
. |
Joseph Louis Lagrange born |
Jan 29/05 |
1777 |
. |
Karl Friedrich Gauss born |
Jan 21/05 |
1789 |
. |
Augustin-Louis Cauchy born |
Jan 29/05 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1805 |
. |
Pierre Gustav Dirichlet born |
May 9/05 |
1813 |
. |
Lagrange dies |
Jan 29/05 |
1823 |
. |
Leopold Kronecker born |
Jan 22/05 |
. |
. |
Cauchy uses epsilon-delta notation for limits |
May 9/05 |
1826 |
. |
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann born |
Jan 29/05 |
1831 |
. |
Richard Dedekind born |
Jan 21/05 |
1837 |
. |
Dirichlet gives the modern definition of a function in terms of set theory |
May 9/05 |
1855 |
. |
Gauss dies |
Oct 4/05 |
1857 |
. |
Cauchy dies |
May 9/05 |
1858 |
. |
Guiseppi Peano born |
Sept 4/05 |
1859 |
|
Riemann presents "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity" |
Sept 4/05 |
1859 |
. |
Dirichlet dies |
May 9/05 |
1866 |
. |
Riemann dies |
Jan 29/05 |
1872 |
. |
Dedekind publishes paper establishing the real numbers via a Dedekind Cut |
Jan 22/05 |
1889 |
|
Peano published his 5 axioms for arithmetic |
Sept. 04/05 |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1906 |
|
Kurt Godel born |
. |
1916 |
. |
Dedekind dies |
Jan 21/05 |
1931 |
|
Godel publishes paper on consistency and incompleteness |
Sept 04/05 |
1932 |
. |
Guiseppi Peano dies |
Sept 04/05 |
| 1978 |
. |
Kurt Godel dies |
Sept. 04/05 |
. |
. |
.. |
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