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'''Mehmet Nadir''' (1856 – 13 December 1927) was a [[Turkish people|Turkish]] mathematician and educator. He was born in [[Chios|Sakız]] island (modern Chios in [[Greece]]) then a part of the [[Ottoman Empire]], to a poor family. He ...

* 1650 BC – [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus]], copy of a lost scroll from around 1850 BC, the scribe [[Ahmes]] presents one of the first known approx *The earliest recorded use of [[combinatorial]] techniques comes from problem 79 of the [[Rhind Mathematical Papyrus|Rhind papyrus]] which dates ...