Math timeline by TINA ALAMURU https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy en-us 2022-08-16 13:31:36 UTC 2022-08-21 16:05:16 UTC hello@padlet.com Ishango Bone- (20,000 BCE)(discovered in 1950) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262245411 The Ishango Bone is the oldest mathematical artifact still in existence: it was discovered in 1950, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa, and is named after the region where it was found. It is approximately 20,000 years old. The bone is 10 cm long and contains a series of notches, which many scientists believe were used for counting. 


  
]]> 2022-08-16 13:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262245411 Sumerian Multiplication Table (Created Around 2600 BCE) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262246379 This tablet shows a multiplication table that was created around 2600 BCE in the Sumerian city of Shuruppak. It is one of the oldest mathematical tablets we have ever discovered. The table has three columns.]]> 2022-08-16 13:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262246379 Tomb of Menna (1420 BCE) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262249042 Menna was a chief scribe in ancient Egypt, and in charge of measuring the size of fields for farming, inspected crop yields, reporting to the Pharaoh’s central field administration, and calculating taxes.

The wall paintings in his tomb show the different measuring and calculating techniques used more than 3,000 years ago. For example, in the first row, you can see how long distances were measured using ropes with knots at regular intervals.

]]> 2022-08-16 13:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262249042 Pingala(300 BCE) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262250697 Pingala (पिङ्गल) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician who lived around 300 BCE, but very little is known about his life. He wrote the Chandaḥśāstra, where he analysed Sanskrit poetry mathematically. It also contained the first known explanations of binary numbers.]]> 2022-08-16 13:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262250697 Aryabhata(476 – 550) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262252098 Aryabhata (आर्यभट, 476 – 550) was one of the first mathematicians and astronomers in the golden age of Indian mathematics. He defined trigonometric functions, solved simultaneous quadratic equations, found approximations for π, and realised that π is irrational.


]]> 2022-08-16 13:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262252098 Li Ye(1192 – 1279) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262262405 He was a Chinese mathematician. He improved methods for solving polynomial equations, and was one of the first Chinese scientists to propose that the Earth is spherical.]]> 2022-08-16 13:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262262405 Ada Lovelace(1815-1872) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262264383 She was an English writer and mathematician. Together with Charles Babbage, she worked on the Analytical Engine an early, mechanical computer. She also wrote the first algorithm to run on such a machine (to calculate Bernoulli numbers), making her the first computer programmer in history.

Lovelace described her approach as “poetical science”, and spent much time thinking about the impact of technology on society.


]]> 2022-08-16 13:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262264383 Sir Isaac Newton(1642-1726) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262265629 He was an English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer. He was a professor at Cambridge University.
In his book Principia Mathematica, Newton formulated the laws of motion and gravity, which laid the foundations for classical physics and dominated our view of the universe for the next three centuries.

]]> 2022-08-16 13:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262265629 Adi Shamir (1952) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262276025 Adi Shamir is an Israeli mathematician and cryptographer. He invented the RSA algorithm, which uses the difficulty of factoring prime numbers to encode secret messages.]]> 2022-08-16 14:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262276025 Maryna Viazovska(1984) tina_tgss https://padlet.com/tina_tgss/kzak2ecgmzn4e7dy/wish/2262280296 She is a Ukrainian mathematician and only the second woman in history to receive the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics.

Viazovska solved the sphere-packing problem in 8 and 24 dimensions, which asks about the most efficient way to arrange solid spheres. She is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland.


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