Timelines tagged “mathematics”
5 timelines
- Calculus
How calculus took shape, from Archimedes' use of the method of exhaustion in the 3rd century BCE through the Kerala school, Newton and Leibniz to the rigorous foundations of Cauchy, Weierstrass and Dedekind by 1872.
- Geometry
Geometry from Egyptian and Babylonian scribes of about 1850–1800 BCE through Euclid, non-Euclidean geometry and topology to Grigori Perelman's 2002–2003 proof of the Poincaré conjecture.
- Mathematics
Mathematics worldwide from Babylonian tablets of about 1800 BCE through Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, Indian and Islamic advances to modern algebra, logic and computer-assisted proof, ending with the 1995 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Pi
Approximations and computations of π, from Babylonian and Egyptian values of about 1900–1550 BCE through polygon methods, infinite series and proofs of irrationality and transcendence to the 314-trillion-digit record of 2025.
- Probability and Statistics
The mathematics of chance and the science of data over more than 360 years, from Pascal and Fermat's letters of 1654 and Cardano's dice treatise through Bayes, Gauss and Fisher to computer-age methods and the American Statistical Association's 2016 statement on p-values.