HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

OF ARITHMETIC
PROGRESSION
- MYTHYREYI VADIVELU SUKUMAR
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WHO INVENTED ARITHMETIC
PROGRESSION
 Johann Carl Friedrich

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss is the father of

Arithmetic Progression. He found it when he was in
school and his teacher asked to sum the integers
from 1 to 100.
ARITHMETIC SEQUENCE
Arithmetic progressions were first found in the
Ahmes Papyrus which is dated at 1550 BC. The
names for these notions, however, seem to have
taken considerably longer. In some cases there was
no standard for how to refer to them (even the term
progression was not necessarily a standard).
WHAT IS ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION

A progression is a sequence of numbers that follow a

specific pattern. ... For example, the sequence 2, 6, 10,
14, … is an arithmetic progression (AP) because it
follows a pattern where each number is obtained by
adding 4 to its previous term. In this sequence, nth term
= 4n-2
HISTORY OF ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION

 CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS was not the first to discover this

formula , and some find it likely that its origin goes back
to the pythagoreans in the 5th century BC . Similar rules
were known in antiquity to Archimedes , Hypsicles and
Diophantus , in china to Zhang Quijian , in India to
Aryabhata , brahmagupta and bhaskara II ; and in
medieval Europe to Alcuin , Dicuil , Fibonacci , Sacrobosco
and to anonymous commentators of Talmud known as
Tosafists.
EXAMPLES OF ARITHMETIC
PROGRESSIONS
 The petals of a sunflower , the scales of a
pineapple , the bouncing pattern of a ball , all of
these things follow a progression . So here we will
learn a specific type of progression called the
ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION.