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The Math Book (years 0 -1400)

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Ptolemy's Almagest   show
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show 250. Greek mathematician the father of algebra. Treatment of fractions as numbers, like integer solutions to equations.  
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Pappus's Hexagon Theorem   show
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show 350. Found in India in a stone enclosure in 1881. Had techniques for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, square roots, and also zero, negatives, and unknowns. First Indian mathematics without religion.  
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Death of Hypatia   show
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Zero   show
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show 800. Alcuinus a scholar from England. His book contributed to the learning of the "Number Pope" in France who redid the floor of a cathedral as an abacus and adopted Arabic numbers in place of Roman Numerals. The book has puzzles including river crossings  
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show 830. Father of Algebra. From Persia/Baghdad. Al-jabr an operation to add the same quantity to both sides of an equation, book intended to be practical with linear & quadratic equations  
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Borrowmean Rings   show
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Ganita Sara Samgraha   show
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show 850. Arab. Formula for amicable numbers. Amicable numbers are two numbers whose proper factors sum to the other number. (220 & 284)  
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show 953. Book written by Arab Al-Uqlidisi. Translated Euclid's works. Used decimals for first time, legacy is paper-and-pen math (instead of sand)  
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Omar Khayyan's Treatise   show
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Al-Samawal's The Dazzling   show
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Abacus   show
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show 1202. Italian. Book introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Western Europe. And then of course the Fibonacci Sequence.  
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Wheat on a Chessboard   show
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Harmonic Series Diverges   show
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