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Learning: Mathematics Timeline |
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First created on January 21,
2005 |
Date |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1805 |
Pierre Gustav Dirichlet born | May 9/05 |
1813 |
Lagrange dies | Jan 29/05 |
1823 |
Leopold Kronecker born | Jan 22/05 |
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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 |
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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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