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History of Math Powerpoint
History of Math Powerpoint
History of Math Powerpoint
• Ancient Period
• Greek Period
• Hindu-Arabic Period
• Period of Transmission
• Early Modern Period
• Modern Period
Ancient Period (3000 B.C. to 260 A.D.)
This mathematical tablet was recovered from an unknown place in the Iraqi
desert. It was written originally sometime around 1800 BC. The tablet
presents a list of Pythagorean triples written in Babylonian numerals. This
numeration system uses only two symbols and a base of sixty.
Chinese Mathematics
Roman Bronze
“Pocket” Abacus
B. Euclidean Geometry
• The first mathematical system based on postulates, theorems and
proofs appears in Euclid's Elements.
Area of Greek Influence
Pythagoras of
Crotona
Archimedes
Apollonius
of Syracuse
of Perga
Eureka!
Archimedes Screw
Archimedes’ screw is a mechanical device used to lift water and such light
materials as grain or sand. To pump water from a river, for example, the
lower end is placed in the river and water rises up the spiral threads of the
screw as it is revolved.
Ptolemaic System
Pages from a
13th century
Arabic edition of
Ptolemy’s
Almagest.
Islamic Astronomy and Science
François Viète
1540-1603
The Conic Sections and Analytic Geometry
John Napier
1550-1617
In his Mirifici Logarithmorum
Canonis descriptio (1614) the
Scottish nobleman John Napier
introduced the concept of
logarithms as an aid to
calculation.
Henry Briggs and the Development of Logarithms
Johannes Kepler
1571-1630
Isaac Newton
1642 - 1727
Gottfied Leibniz
1646 - 1716
B. Set Theory
• Cantor studies infinite sets and defines transfinite numbers
• Set theory used as a theoretical foundation for all of mathematics
C. Statistics and Probability
• Theories of probability and statistics are developed to solve numerous practical
applications, such as weather prediction, polls, medical studies etc.; they are also used
as a basis for nuclear physics
D. Computers
• Development of electronic computer hardware and software solves many previously
unsolvable problems; opens new fields of mathematical research.
In 1946 John W.
Mauchly and J.
Presper Eckert
Jr. built ENIAC at
the University of
Pennsylvania.
It weighed 30
tons, contained
18,000 vacuum
tubes and could
do 100,000
calculations per
second.
Von Neumann and the Theory of Computing
Von Neumann
Architecture