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Mathematics[edit | edit source]
technology | physical object | discoverer/inventor | region | period | link to the introduction of physical object |
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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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