MMW

• 4000-3000 BCE - Sumerians from Sumer, a region of Mesopotamia, were the first people to assign symbols to represent numbers using a pictographic writing system called cuneiform script
• 3000 BCE - Egyptians were the first to develop a numerical system
• 2400 BCE - Babylonians in Mesopotamia used a sexagesimal system
• 300 BCE - Euclid wrote "The Elements," known as the "Father of Geometry"
• 200 BCE - Archimedes of Syracuse, a Greek mathematician, inventor, and astronomer, derived the range of geometry
• 140 BCE - Hipparchus developed trigonometry
• 775 CE - Hindu mathematical works were translated into Arabic
• 830 CE - Arabic algebra and Indian numerals were introduced to Europe through Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi
• 1202 CE - Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) wrote "The Book of Calculation," introducing the concept of zero and decimal points
• 1489 CE - Johannes Widmann, a German mathematician, first introduced the symbols "+" and "-" in his book on mercantile arithmetic
• 16th century - Luca Pacioli, an Italian Franciscan Friar, published a book on arithmetic, geometry, and bookkeeping
• 17th century - John Napier discovered logarithms
• 17th century - Pierre de Fermat developed infinitesimal calculus and studied probability with Pascal
• 17th century - Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline mechanical calculator and expanded binomial theorem
• 17th century - Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton discovered infinitesimal calculus
• 18th century - Leonhard Euler started graph theory, calculus of variations, and differential geometry
• 19th century - Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed to number theory, geometry, probability theory, planetary theory, and the theory of functions
• 20th century:

  • 1975 CE - Benoit Mandelbrot introduced the theory of fractals
  • 1994 CE - Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem
  • 2000 CE - Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century were announced