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Mathematics[edit | edit source]

technology physical object discoverer/inventor region period link to the introduction of physical object
algebraic equations Ἀριθμητικά Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς

Dióphantos ho Alexandreús

Egypt Roman Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetica
algebraic equations ٱلْكِتَاب ٱلْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب ٱلْجَبْر وَٱلْمُقَابَلَة‎ محمد بن موسی خوارزمی

Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Persia Abbasid Caliphate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calculation_by_Completion_and_Balancing
multiplication chart 清華大學藏戰國竹簡 ? China Warring States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_Bamboo_Slips
Pascal's triangle (account by 楊輝 Yáng Huī) 賈憲

Jiǎ Xiàn

China Northern Song dynasty
Pascal's triangle Traité du triangle arithmétique Blaise Pascal France House of Bourbon https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traité_du_triangle_arithmétique
Pascal's triangle (account by Varāhamihira) पिङ्गल

Piṅgala

India Classical period
Pascal's triangle General Trattato di Numeri et Misure Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia Italy early modern period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Fontana_Tartaglia?#Tartaglia's_triangle
Pascal's triangle (a lost book) ابو بکر محمد بن الحسن الکرجی

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al Ḥasan al-Karajī

Persia Buyid dynasty, Ghaznavid dynasty
plane geometry Στοιχεῖα Εὐκλείδης

Eukleídēs

Greece Hellenistic period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements
positional decimal system Bakhshali manuscript ? India Gupta Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakhshali_manuscript
positional decimal system 《算法統宗》 ? China Southern Song dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suanfa_tongzong
Pythagorean theorem (account by Πλούταρχος Ploútarchos, Marcus Tullius Cicero, et. al) Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος

Pythagóras ho Sámios

Greece Archaic period
Pythagorean theorem 《周髀算經》 ? China Zhou dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhoubi_Suanjing
Pythagorean triple Plimpton 322 ? Babylonia Old Babylonian Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton_322
Pythagorean triple Berlin Papyrus 6619 ? Egypt Middle Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Papyrus_6619
Pythagorean triple शुल्बसूत्र ? India Vedic period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulba_Sutras
zero Lokavibhāga Sarvanandi India Late Vedic period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokavibhaga

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