Math

Introduction

Mathematics is the science of numbers and calculations. Since antiquity, man has used math to make life easier and to organize society. Mathematics was used by the Egyptians in building the pyramids, dams, irrigation channels and study of astronomy. The ancient Greeks also developed several mathematical concepts. Currently, the science is present in several areas of society such as architecture, computer science, medicine, physics, chemistry, etc.. We can say that we look at all the math there.

Major fields of mathematics:

- Arithmetic

- Algebra

- Geometry

- Analytic Geometry

- Percentage

- Trigonometry

- Statistics

- Mathematics Education

Below, a brief history of the historical evolution of mathematics:

4000 BC - In Mesopotamia, the Sumerians developed one of the first numerical systems, composed of 60 symbols.

520 BC - The Greek mathematician Eudoxus of Cnidus defines and explains the irrational numbers.

300 BC - Euclid develops several theorems and synthesizes knowledge of geometry. It's the beginning of Euclidean geometry.

250 - Diophantus studies and develops various concepts of algebra.

500 - India Surte a symbol to specify the numeral zero.

1202 - The Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci start using the Arabic numeral.

1551 - Appears the study of trigonometry, facilitating in full Renaissance Scientific, the study of the stars.

1591 - Frenchman Francois Viète begins to represent mathematical equations, using letters of the alphabet.

1614 - The Scotsman John Napier publishes the first board of algorithms.

1637 - The philosopher, French physicist and mathematician Rene Descartes developed a new mathematical discipline: analytic geometry, with misitura algebra and geometry.

1654 - The French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal conduct studies on the calculation of probability.

1669 - The English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton develops the differential and integral calculus.

1685 - Englishman John Wallis creates imaginary numbers.

1744 - The Swiss Leonard Euler developed studies on transcendental numbers.

1822 - The creation of projective geometry is developed by Frenchman Jean Victor Poncelet.

1824 - The Norwegian Niels Henrik Abel concludes that it is impossible to solve the equations of the fifth degree.

1826 - The Russian mathematician Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky develops non-Euclidean geometry.

1931 - Kurt Gödel, German mathematician, proved that there are theorems in mathematical systems that can not be proved or disproved.

1977 - The American mathematician Robert Stetson Shaw studies and develop knowledge on Chaos theory.

1993 - The English mathematician Andrew Wiles can prove through research and study of Fermat's last theorem.

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