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===Before 1000 BC=== * ca. [[Middle Paleolithic|70,000 BC]] – South Africa, ochre rocks adorned with scratched [[Geometry|geomet ...

...ardians of Day and Night, Han Dynasty.jpg|thumb|right|[[Han dynasty]] (202 BC – 220 AD) paintings on tile of Chinese guardian spirits representing 11 pm ...culation was used in calendrical mathematics by [[Tang dynasty]] (618–907) mathematicians such as [[Li Chunfeng]] (602–670) and [[Yi Xing]] (683–727) in order to det ...

...[[Euclid]] and published in his ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]]'' in 300 BC. ...with a few references as far back as the Babylonian empire circa 1700 BC. They involve the general theme of adding or subtracting fractions of a pi ...

*[[Parmenides]] (530 BC–460 BC), İtalian-Greek philosopher, defender of rationalism in philosophy *[[Marcus Terentius Varro]] (116 BC–27 BC), mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, founder of the wise [[Roman calen ...

{{Short description|17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994}} ...wn as a [[conjecture]] rather than a theorem. After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, [[Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|the first successful proof]] was ...

(a + bi)\cdot (c + di) &=& (ac - bd) + (ad + bc)i Mathematicians of the nineteenth century assumed that algebraic numbers were a type of complex number.<ref>{{citatio ...

* [[Law]] — [[Ancient Egypt]]ian law, dating as far back as 3000 BC, was based on the concept of [[Ma'at]] and characterised by tradition, [[rh ...y appearing in the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]] (c.2055–1650 BC).<ref>{{Cite book |first1= John Coleman |last1= Darnell |author-link1= John ...

...school geometry: evolution of the two-column proof in the early twentieth century |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020264906740 |journal=Edu ...ublisher=[[Pearson Education]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-130-60620-4 |edition=6th |location=Upper Saddle River, NJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Serway |fir ...

..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} [[Mathematicians]] seek and use [[pattern]]s<ref> ...