geometry timeline project

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 500

    Egypt

    The geometry of Egypt was mostly derived of rules and they used this method mostly for dividing land and to do tax for landowners. They had measures of rope to measure lengths. There is no logical fact that they knew geometric facts or that they even knew a form of Pythagorean Theorem.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 500 BCE

    Ancient babylon

    The Sumerians developed writing in cuniform on clay tablets and arithmetics using a “base number system“. The Babylonians adopted both methods but Babylonian math was beyond arithmetics. They developed basic ideas in number theory, algebra, and geometry.
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 200 BCE

    India

    Histories of Indian mathematics used to begin by describing the geometry contained in the Sulbasutras but research into the history of Indian mathematics has shown that the essentials of this geometry were older being contained in the altar constructions described in the Vedic mythology text the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Taittiriya Samhita.Also.