Antes de 1000 a.C.

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 ca. 70 000 AC - Sudáfrica, rocas adornadas con patrones geométricos [1]

 ca. 35 000 a.C. a 20 000 a.C. - África y Francia, conocimiento más temprano
sobre la cuantificación del tiempo. ([2], [3], [4])
 ca. 20,000 BC - Valle del Nilo, Ishango Bone: posiblemente la referencia más
temprana de número primos y multiplicación egipcia
 ca. 3400 a.C. - Mesopotamia, los sumerios inventan el primer sistema de
numeración, y un sistema de pesos y medidas.
 ca. 3100 a.C. - Egipto, conocimiento más temprano sobre el sistema decimal [5]

 ca. 2800 a.C. - valle del Indo, uso más temprano de división decimal en un
sistema uniforme de pesos y medidas antiguo.
 2800 a.C. - el cuadrado de Lo Shu, el único cuadrado mágico de orden tres, es
descubierto en China.
 2700 a.C. - Egipto, precisión surveying
 2600 a.C. - valle del Indo - objetos, calles, casas, pavimentos, son construidos
con ángulos rectos perfectos.
 2400 a.C. - Egipto, invención de el calendario astronómico preciso, usado
incluso en la edad media por su regularidad matemática.
 ca. 2000 a.C. - Mesopotamia, Babilonia - uso de sistema decimal de base 60 y
cómputo del primer valor aproximado del número π como 3.125
 1800 a.C. - Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, calculado el volumen de una figura
truncada.
 ca. 1800 a C - Vedic India - Yajnavalkya writes the Shatapatha Brahmana, in
which he describes the motions of the sun and the moon, and advances a 95-year
cycle to synchronize the motions of the sun and the moon
 ca. 1800 a C - the Yajur Veda, one of the four Hindu Vedas, contains the earliest
concept of infinito, and states that "if you remove a part from infinity or add a
part to infinity, still what remains is infinity"
 1650 a C - Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, copy of a lost scroll from around 1850
BC, the scribe Ahmes presents one of the first known approximate values of π at
3.16, the first attempt at squaring the circle, earliest known use of a sort of
cotangent, and knowledge of solving first order linear equations
 1350 a C - Indian astronomer Lagadha writes the "Vedanga Jyotisha", a Vedic
text on astronomy that describes rules for tracking the motions of the sun and the
moon, and uses geometry and trigonometry for astronomy
 1300 a.C. - Berlín papyrus (dinastía 19º) contiene una ecuación cuadrática con
su solución. [6]

1º milenio a.C. [editar]

 ca 1000 a C - Vulgar fractions used by the Egyptians.

 800 adC - Baudhayana, author of the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, a Vedic Sanskrit
geometric text, contains the first use of the teorema de Pitágoras, quadratic
equations, and calculates the square root of 2 correct to five decimal places
 600 adC - Apastamba, author of the Apastamba Sulba Sutra, another Vedic
Sanskrit geometric text, makes an attempt at squaring the circle and also
calculates the square root of 2 correct to five decimal places
 ca. 600 adC - the other Vedic "Sulba Sutras" ("rule of chords" in Sanskrit) use
Pythagorean triples, contain of a number of geometrical proofs, and approximate
π at 3.16
 530 adC - Pythagoras studies propositional geometry and vibrating lyre strings;
his group also discover the irrationality of the square root of two,
 ca. 500 adC - Indian grammarian Pānini, considered the father of computing
machines, writes the Astadhyayi, which contains the use of metarules,
transformations and recursions, originally for the purpose of systematising the
grammar of Sanskrit
 ca. 400 adC - Jaina mathematicians in India write the "Surya Prajinapti", a
mathematical text which classifies all numbers into three sets: enumerable,
innumerable and infinite. It also recognises five different types of infinity:
infinite in one and two directions, infinite in area, infinite everywhere, and
infinite perpetually.
 300s adC - Indian texts use the Sanskrit word "Shunya" to refer to the concept of
'void' (zero)
 370 adC - Eudoxus states the method of exhaustion for area determination,
 350 adC - Aristotle discusses logical reasoning in Organon,
 300 adC - Jaina mathematicians in India write the "Bhagabati Sutra", which
contains the earliest information on combinations
 ca 300 adC - Ptolomeo I Sóter crea la Biblioteca de Alejandría.
 300 adC - Euclid in his Elements studies geometry as an axiomatic system,
proves the infinitude of prime numbers and presents the Euclidean algorithm; he
states the law of reflection in Catoptrics, and he proves the fundamental theorem
of arithmetic
 ca. 300 adC - Brahmi numerals are conceived in India
 300 adC - Mesopotamia, the Babylonians invent the earliest calculator, the
abacus
 ca. 300 adC - Indian mathematician Pingala writes the "Chhandah-shastra",
which contains the first Indian use of zero as a digit (indicated by a dot) and also
presents a description of a binary numeral system, along with the first use of
Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle
 260 adC - Arquímedes develops a method to prove the value of π to within two
decimal places using inscribed and circumscribed polygons and computes the
area under a parabolic segment,
 ca. 250 adC - late Olmecs had already begun to use a true zero (a shell glyph)
several centuries before Ptolemy in the New World. See 0 (number).
 240 adC - Eratosthenes uses his sieve algorithm to quickly isolate prime
numbers,
 225 adC - Apollonius of Perga writes On Conic Sections and names the ellipse,
parabola, and hyperbola,
 150 adC - Jain mathematicians in India write the "Sthananga Sutra", which
contains work on the theory of numbers, arithmetical operations, geometry,
operations with fractions, simple equations, cubic equations, quartic equations,
and permutations and combinations
 140 adC - Hiparco desarrolla las bases de la trigonometría
  50 adC - Indian numerals, the first positional notation base-10 numeral system,
begins developing in India

Primer milenio [editar]

 s. I - Heron of Alexandria, the earliest fleeting reference to square roots of

negative numbers.
 ca. 200s - Ptolemy of Alexandria wrote the Almagest,
 250 - Diophantus uses symbols for unknown numbers in terms of the syncopated
algebra, and he writes Arithmetica, the first systematic treatise on algebra,
 300 - the earliest known use of zero as a decimal digit is introduced by Indian
mathematicians
 400 - the "Bakhshali manuscript" is written by Jaina mathematicians, which
describes a theory of the infinite containing different levels of infinity, shows an
understanding of indices, as well as logarithms to base 2, and computes square
roots of numbers as large as a million correct to at least 11 decimal places
 450 - Zu Chongzhi computes π to seven decimal places,
 500 - Aryabhata writes the "Aryabhata-Siddhanta", which first introduces the
trigonometric functions and methods of calculating their approximate numerical
values. It defines the concepts of sine and cosine, and also contains the earliest
tables of sine and cosine values (in 3.75-degree intervals from 0 to 90 degrees)
 500s - Aryabhata gives accurate calculations for astronomical constants, such as
the solar eclipse and lunar eclipse, computes π to four decimal places, and
obtains whole number solutions to linear equations by a method equivalent to
the modern method
 550 - Hindu mathematicians give zero a numeral representation in the positional
notation Indian numeral system
 600s - Bhaskara I gives a rational approximation of the sine function
 600s - Brahmagupta invents the method of solving indeterminate equations of
the second degree and is the first to use algebra to solve astronomical problems.
He also develops methods for calculations of the motions and places of various
planets, their rising and setting, conjunctions, and the calculation of eclipses of
the sun and the moon
 628 - Brahmagupta writes the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta, where zero is clearly
explained, and where the modern place-value Indian numeral system is fully
developed. It also gives rules for manipulating both negative and positive
numbers, methods for computing square roots, methods of solving linear and
quadratic equations, and rules for summing series, Brahmagupta's identity, and
the Brahmagupta theorem
 700s - Virasena gives explicit rules for the Fibonacci sequence, gives the
derivation of the volume of a frustum using an infinite procedure, and also deals
with the logarithm to base 2 and knows its laws
 700s - Shridhara gives the rule for finding the volume of a sphere and also the
formula for solving quadratic equations
 750 - Al-Khawarizmi - Considered father of modern algebra since he was the
first to bring Indian mathematics to Europe. First mathematician to work on the
details of 'Arithmetic and Algebra of inheritance' besides the systematisation of
the theory of linear and quadratic equations.
  773 - Kanka brings Brahmagupta's Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta to Baghdad to
explain the Indian system of arithmetic astronomy and the Indian numeral
system
 773 - Al Fazaii translates the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta into Arabic upon the
request of King Khalif Abbasid Al Mansoor
 800s - Govindsvamin discovers the Newton-Gauss interpolation formula, and
gives the fractional parts of Aryabhata's tabular sines
 895 - Thabit ibn Qurra - The only surviving fragment of his original work
contains a chapter on the solution and properties of cubic equations.
 953 - Al-Uqlidisi writes the earliest translation on the Indian place-value
numeral system
 975 - Al-Batani - Extended the Indian concepts of sine and cosine to other
trigonometrical ratios, like tangent, secant and their inverse functions. Derived
the formula: sin α = tan α / (1+tan² α) and cos α = 1 / (1 + tan² α).

1000 - 1499 [editar]

 1020 - Abul Wáfa - Gave this famous formula: sin (α + β) = sin α cos β + sin β
cos α. Also discussed the quadrature of the parabola and the volume of the
paraboloid.
 1030 - Ali Ahmad Nasawi - Divide las horas en 60 minutos y los minutos en 60
segundos.
 1070 - Omar Khayyám comienza a escribir Tratado de la Demostración de
Problemas de Álgebra y clasifica ecuaciones cúbicas.
 1100s - Indian numerals have been modified by árabes mathematicians to form
the modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system (used universally in the modern
world)
 1100s - the Hindu-Arabic numeral system reaches Europe through the Arabs
 1100s - Bhaskara Acharya writes the Lilavati, which covers the topics of
definitions, arithmetical terms, interest computation, arithmetical and
geometrical progressions, geometría plana, solid geometry, the shadow of the
gnomon, methods to solve indeterminate equations, and combinations
 1100s - Bhaskara Acharya writes the "Bijaganita" ("Algebra"), which is the first
text to recognize that a positive number has two square roots
 1100s - Bhaskara Acharya conceives differential calculus, and also develops
Rolle's theorem, Pell's equation, a proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, proves
that division by zero is infinity, computes π to 5 decimal places, and calculates
the time taken for the earth to orbit the sun to 9 decimal places
 1175 - Gerardo de Cremona traduce en Toledo el Almagesto de Claudio
Tolomeo del árabe al latín.
 1202 - Leonardo de Pisa (más conocido como Fibonacci) publica el Liber abaci
(Libro del ábaco o Libro de los cálculos) difundiendo en Europa la numeración
arábiga.
 1303 - Zhu Shijie publishes Precious Mirror of the Four Elements, which
contains an ancient method of arranging binomial coefficients in a triangle.
 1300s - Madhava is considered the father of mathematical analysis, who also
worked on the power series for p and for sine and cosine functions, and along
with other Kerala school mathematicians, founded the important concepts of
Calculus
  1300s - Parameshvara, a Kerala school mathematician, presents a series form of
the sine function that is equivalent to its Taylor series expansion, states the mean
value theorem of differential calculus, and is also the first mathematician to give
the radius of circle with inscribed cyclic quadrilateral
 1400 - Madhava discovers the series expansion for the inverse-tangent function,
the infinite series for arctan and sin, and many methods for calculating the
circumference of the circle, and uses them to compute π correct to 11 decimal
places
 1424 - Ghiyath al-Kashi - computes π to sixteen decimal places using inscribed
and circumscribed polygons,
 1400s - Nilakantha Somayaji, a Kerala school mathematician, writes the
"Aryabhatiya Bhasya", which contains work on infinite-series expansions,
problems of algebra, and spherical geometry
 1456 - Se imprime en Maguncia la Biblia de Gutemberg.
 1478 - An anonymous author writes the Treviso Arithmetic.
 1482 - Erhard Ratdolt realiza en Venecia la primera impresión latina de los
Elementos de Euclides.

Siglo XVI [editar]

 1501 - Nilakantha Somayaji escribe los "Tantra Samgraha", which lays the
foundation for a complete system of fluxions (derivatives), and expands on
concepts from his previous text, the "Aryabhatiya Bhasya"
 1518 - Henricus Grammateus publica la primera obra impresa que utiliza los
símbolos + y - para la adicción y la substracción.
 1520 - Scipione dal Ferro desarrolla un método para resolver ecuaciones cubicas
sin el termino x2, pero no lo publica
 1535 - Niccolo Tartaglia desarrolla independientemente un método para resolver
ecuaciones cubicas sin termino x2, pero no lo publica.
 1539 - Gerolamo Cardano aprende el método de Tartaglia para resolver
ecuaciones cubicas sin el termino x2 y descubre un método para resolver todas
las ecuaciones cubicas.
 1540 - Lodovico Ferrari resuelve la ecuación de cuarto grado. La solución se
publica junto a la de tercer grado en 1545 en el libro Ars Magna de Gerolamo
Cardano.
 1544 - Michael Stifel publica "Arithmetica integra",
 1550 - Jyeshtadeva, un matemático de Kerala school escribe el primer tratado de
cálculo "Yuktibhasa", dando detalles de derivación, dando formulas y teoremas
sobre calculo .
 1557 - Robert Recorde inventa el signo = y populariza en Inglaterra los símbolos
+ y -.
 1591 - François Viète utiliza letras para simbolizar incógnitas y constantes en
ecuaciones algebraicas en su obra In artem analyticam isagoge.
 1596 - Ludolf van Ceulen calcula π con 20 cifras decimales usando poligonos
inscritos y circuncritos.

Siglo XVII [editar]

 1600s - Putumana Somayaji writes the "Paddhati", which presents a detailed

discussion of various trigonometric series
  1614 - John Napier discusses Napierian logarithms in Mirifici Logarithmorum
Canonis Descriptio,
 1617 - Henry Briggs discusses decimal logarithms in Logarithmorum Chilias
Prima,
 1618 - John Napier publishes the first references to e in a work on logarithms.
 1619 - René Descartes discovers analytic geometry (Pierre de Fermat claimed
that he also discovered it independently),
 1619 - Johannes Kepler discovers two of the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra.
 1629 - Pierre de Fermat develops a rudimentary differential calculus,
 1634 - Gilles de Roberval shows that the area under a cycloid is three times the
area of its generating circle,
 1637 - Pierre de Fermat enuncia, sin demostrar, el Último Teorema de Fermat en
su copia de la obra de Diofanto Arithmetica.
 1637 - First use of the term imaginary number by René Descartes, it was meant
to be derogatory.
 1654 - Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat create the theory of probability,
 1655 - John Wallis writes Arithmetica Infinitorum,
 1658 - Christopher Wren shows that the length of a cycloid is four times the
diameter of its generating circle,
 1665 - Isaac Newton works on the fundamental theorem of calculus and
develops his version of infinitesimal calculus,
 1668 - Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an infinite series for
the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment,
 1671 - James Gregory develops a series expansion for the inverse-tangent
function (originally discovered by Madhava)
 1673 - Gottfried Leibniz also develops his version of infinitesimal calculus,
 1675 - Isaac Newton invents an algorithm for the computation of functional
roots,
 1680s - Gottfried Leibniz works on symbolic logic,
 1691 - Gottfried Leibniz discovers the technique of separation of variables for
ordinary differential equations,
 1693 - Edmund Halley prepares the first mortality tables statistically relating
death rate to age,
 1696 - Guillaume de L'Hôpital states his rule for the computation of certain
limits,
 1696 - Jakob Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli solve brachistochrone problem, the
first result in the calculus of variations,

Siglo XVIII [editar]

 1706 - John Machin develops a quickly converging inverse-tangent series for π

and computes π to 100 decimal places,
 1712 - Brook Taylor develops Taylor series,
 1722 - Abraham De Moivre states De Moivre's theorem connecting
trigonometric functions and complex numbers,
 1724 - Abraham De Moivre studies mortality statistics and the foundation of the
theory of annuities in Annuities on Lives,
 1730 - James Stirling publishes The Differential Method,
 1733 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri studies what geometry would be like if
Euclid's fifth postulate were false,
  1733 - Abraham de Moivre introduces the normal distribution to approximate
the binomial distribution in probability,
 1734 - Leonhard Euler introduces the integrating factor technique for solving
first-order ordinary differential equations,
 1735 - Leonhard Euler solves the Basel problem, relating an infinite series to π,
 1736 - Leonhard Euler solves the problem of the Seven bridges of Königsberg,
in effect creating graph theory,
 1739 - Leonhard Euler solves the general homogeneous linear ordinary
differential equation with constant coefficients,
 1742 - Christian Goldbach conjectures that every even number greater than two
can be expressed as the sum of two primes, now known as Goldbach's
conjecture,
 1748 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi discusses analysis in Instituzioni Analitiche ad
Uso della Gioventu Italiana,
 1761 - Thomas Bayes proves Bayes' theorem,
 1762 - Joseph Louis Lagrange discovers the divergence theorem,
 1789 - Jurij Vega improves Machin's formula and computes π to 140 decimal
places,
 1794 - Jurij Vega publishes Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus,
 1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss proves that the regular 17-gon can be constructed
using only a compass and straightedge
 1796 - Adrien-Marie Legendre conjectures the prime number theorem,
 1797 - Caspar Wessel associates vectors with complex numbers and studies
complex number operations in geometrical terms,
 1799 - Carl Friedrich Gauss proves the fundamental theorem of algebra (every
polynomial equation has a solution among the complex numbers),
 1799 - Paolo Ruffini partially proves the Abel–Ruffini theorem that quintic or
higher equations cannot be solved by a general formula,

Siglo XIX [editar]

 1801 - Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Carl Friedrich Gauss's number theory

treatise, is published in Latin
 1805 - Adrien-Marie Legendre introduces the method of least squares for fitting
a curve to a given set of observations,
 1806 - Louis Poinsot discovers the two remaining Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra.
 1806 - Jean-Robert Argand publishes proof of the Fundamental theorem of
algebra and the Argand diagram,
 1807 - Joseph Fourier announces his discoveries about the trigonometric
decomposition of functions,
 1811 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discusses the meaning of integrals with complex
limits and briefly examines the dependence of such integrals on the chosen path
of integration,
 1815 - Siméon-Denis Poisson carries out integrations along paths in the complex
plane,
 1817 - Bernard Bolzano presents the intermediate value theorem---a continuous
function which is negative at one point and positive at another point must be
zero for at least one point in between,
 1822 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy presents the Cauchy integral theorem for
integration around the boundary of a rectangle in the complex plane,
 1824 - Niels Henrik Abel partially proves the Abel–Ruffini theorem that the
general quintic or higher equations cannot be solved by a general formula
involving only arithmetical operations and roots,
 1825 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy presents the Cauchy integral theorem for general
integration paths -- he assumes the function being integrated has a continuous
derivative, and he introduces the theory of residues in complex analysis,
 1825 - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Adrien-Marie Legendre prove
Fermat's last theorem for n = 5,
 1825 - André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' theorem,
 1828 - George Green proves Green's theorem,
 1829 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky publishes his work on hyperbolic non-
Euclidean geometry,
 1831 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky rediscovers and gives the first proof of
the divergence theorem earlier described by Lagrange, Gauss and Green,
 1832 - Évariste Galois presents a general condition for the solvability of
algebraic equations, thereby essentially founding group theory and Galois
theory,
 1832 - Peter Dirichlet proves Fermat's last theorem for n = 14,
 1835 - Peter Dirichlet proves Dirichlet's theorem about prime numbers in
arithmetical progressions,
 1837 - Pierre Wantsel proves that doubling the cube and trisecting the angle are
impossible with only a compass and straightedge, as well as the full completion
of the problem of constructability of regular polygons
 1841 - Karl Weierstrass discovers but does not publish the Laurent expansion
theorem,
 1843 - Pierre-Alphonse Laurent discovers and presents the Laurent expansion
theorem,
 1843 - William Hamilton discovers the calculus of quaternions and deduces that
they are non-commutative,
 1847 - George Boole formalizes symbolic logic in The Mathematical Analysis of
Logic, defining what is now called Boolean algebra,
 1849 - George Gabriel Stokes shows that solitary waves can arise from a
combination of periodic waves,
 1850 - Victor Alexandre Puiseux distinguishes between poles and branch points
and introduces the concept of essential singular points,
 1850 - George Gabriel Stokes rediscovers and proves Stokes' theorem,
 1851 - Bernhard Riemann define en su tesis las superficies de Riemann.
 1852 - Francis Guthrie, estudiante de Augustus De Morgan, enuncia el Teorema
de los cuatro colores.
 1854 - Bernhard Riemann define en Ueber die Darstellbarkeit einer Function
durch eine trigonometrische Reihe la integral de Riemann y crea La teoría de
funciones de una variable real. Ese mismo año, en una clase magistral sobre los
fundamentos de la Geometría introduce la Geometría de Riemann.
 1854 - Arthur Cayley shows that quaternions can be used to represent rotations
in four-dimensional space,
 1858 - August Ferdinand Möbius invents the Möbius strip,
 1859 - Bernhard Riemann formulates the Riemann hypothesis which has strong
implications about the distribution of prime numbers,
  1870 - Felix Klein constructs an analytic geometry for Lobachevski's geometry
thereby establishing its self-consistency and the logical independence of Euclid's
fifth postulate,
 1873 - Charles Hermite proves that e is transcendental,
 1873 - Georg Frobenius presents his method for finding series solutions to linear
differential equations with regular singular points,
 1874 - Georg Cantor shows that the set of all real numbers is uncountably
infinite but the set of all algebraic numbers is countably infinite. Contrary to
widely held beliefs, his method was not his famous diagonal argument, which he
published three years later. (Nor did he formulate set theory at this time.)
 1878 - Charles Hermite solves the general quintic equation by means of elliptic
and modular functions
 1882 - Ferdinand von Lindemann proves that π is transcendental and that
therefore the circle cannot be squared with a compass and straightedge,
 1882 - Felix Klein invents the Klein bottle,
 1895 - Diederik Korteweg and Gustav de Vries derive the KdV equation to
describe the development of long solitary water waves in a canal of rectangular
cross section,
 1895 - Georg Cantor publishes a book about set theory containing the arithmetic
of infinite cardinal numbers and the continuum hypothesis,
 1896 - Jacques Hadamard and Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin independently
prove the prime number theorem,
 1896 - Hermann Minkowski presents Geometry of numbers,
 1899 - Georg Cantor discovers a contradiction in his set theory,
 1899 - David Hilbert presents a set of self-consistent geometric axioms in
Foundations of Geometry,

Siglo XX [editar]

 1900 - David Hilbert presenta su lista de 23 problemas.

 1901 - Élie Cartan desarrolla las exterior derivative,
 1901 - Henri Léon Lebesgue formula la Teoría de la medida y define la Integral
de Lebesgue.
 1903 - Carle David Tolme Runge presenta un algoritmo rapido de transformada
de Fourier
 1903 - Edmund Georg Hermann Landau gives considerably simpler proof of the
prime number theorem,
 1908 - Ernst Zermelo axiomatiza la teoría de conjuntos ,evitando las
contradicciones de la teoría de Cantor ,
 1908 - Josip Plemelj resuelve el problema de Riemann sobre la existencia de una
ecuación diferencial con un grupo monodromico y usando la formula de
Sokhotsky - Plemelj
 1912 - Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer presents the Brouwer fixed-point theorem,
 1912 - Josip Plemelj publica una demostración simplificada de el çultimo
teorema de Fermat para exponente n = 5,
 1913 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan sends a long list of complex theorems
without proofs to G. H. Hardy,
 1914 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan publica Modular Equations and
Approximations to π,
 1910s - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan develops over 3000 theorems,
including properties of highly composite numbers, the partition function and its
asymptotics, and mock theta functions. He also makes major breakthroughs and
discoveries in the areas of gamma functions, modular forms, divergent series,
hypergeometric series and prime number theory
 1919 - Viggo Brun define la constante de Brun B2 para primos gemelos .
 1928 - John von Neumann begins devising the principles of game theory and
proves the minimax theorem,
 1930 - Casimir Kuratowski shows that the three cottage problem has no solution,
 1931 - Kurt Gödel proves his incompleteness theorem which shows that every
axiomatic system for mathematics is either incomplete or inconsistent,
 1931 - Georges de Rham develops theorems in cohomology and characteristic
classes,
 1933 - Karol Borsuk and Stanislaw Ulam present the Borsuk-Ulam antipodal-
point theorem,
 1933 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov publica su libro Nociones basicas del
calculo de probabilidad (Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung) que
contiene una axiomatizacion de Probabilidad basado en la teoría de la medida
 1940 - Kurt Gödel shows that neither the continuum hypothesis nor the axiom of
choice can be disproven from the standard axioms of set theory,
 1942 - G.C. Danielson and Cornelius Lanczos develop a Fast Fourier Transform
algorithm,
 1943 - Kenneth Levenberg proposes a method for nonlinear least squares fitting,
 1946 - Se presenta al público el ENIAC.
 1947 - George B. Dantzig publica el método simplex que resuelve problemas de
programación lineal.
 1948 - John von Neumann mathematically studies self-reproducing machines,
 1949 - John von Neumann calcula π con 2037 lugares decimales usando ENIAC,
 1950 - Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann present cellular automata
dynamical systems,
 1953 - Nicholas Metropolis introduces the idea of thermodynamic simulated
annealing algorithms,
 1955 - H. S. M. Coxeter et al. publish the complete list of uniform polyhedron,
 1955 - Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, and Stanislaw Ulam numerically study a
nonlinear spring model of heat conduction and discover solitary wave type
behavior,
 1957 - Aparece el lenguaje de programación Fortran.
 1960 - C. A. R. Hoare invents the quicksort algorithm,
 1960 - Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon present the Reed-Solomon error-
correcting code,
 1961 - Daniel Shanks y John Wrench calcula π con 100 000 cifras decimales
usando una identidad trigonometrica arctany un computador IBM-7090
 1962 - Donald Marquardt proposes the Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least
squares fitting algorithm,
 1963 - Paul Cohen uses his technique of forcing to show that neither the
continuum hypothesis nor the axiom of choice can be proven from the standard
axioms of set theory,
 1963 - Martin Kruskal and Norman Zabusky analytically study the Fermi-Pasta-
Ulam heat conduction problem in the continuum limit and find that the KdV
equation governs this system,
  1963 - meteorologist and mathematician Edward Norton Lorenz published
solutions for a simplified mathematical model of atmospheric turbulence -
generally known as chaotic behaviour and strange attractors or Lorenz Attractor
- also the Butterfly Effect
 1965 - Martin Kruskal and Norman Zabusky numerically study colliding solitary
waves in plasmas and find that they do not disperse after collisions,
 1965 - James Cooley and John Tukey present an influential Fast Fourier
Transform algorithm,
 1966 - E.J. Putzer presents two methods for computing the exponential of a
matrix in terms of a polynomial in that matrix,
 1966 - Abraham Robinson presents Non-standard analysis.
 1967 - Robert Langlands formulates the influential Langlands program of
conjectures relating number theory and representation theory,
 1968 - Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer prove the Atiyah-Singer index
theorem about the index of elliptic operators,
 1975 - Benoît Mandelbrot publica Les objets fractals, forme, hasard et
dimension,
 1976 - Kenneth Appel y Wolfgang Haken usan un computador para demostrar el
teorema de los cuatro colores.
 1983 - Gerd Faltings proves the Mordell conjecture and thereby shows that there
are only finitely many whole number solutions for each exponent of Fermat's
last theorem,
 1983 - the classification of finite simple groups, a collaborative work involving
some hundred mathematicians and spanning thirty years, is completed,
 1985 - Louis de Branges de Bourcia proves the Bieberbach conjecture,
 1987 - Yasumasa Kanada, David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein
use iterative modular equation approximations to elliptic integrals and a NEC
SX-2 supercomputer to compute π to 134 million decimal places,
 1991 - Alain Connes y John W. Lott desarrollan la geometría no-conmutativa,
 1994 - Andrew Wiles prueba parte de la conjetura de Taniyama-Shimura y
también prueba el último teorema de Fermat,
 1998 - Thomas Hales (almost certainly) prueba la conjetura de Kepler.
 1999 - Es probada completamente la conjetura de Taniyama-Shimura

Siglo XXI [editar]

 2000 - El Clay Mathematics Institute establece los siete Problemas no resueltos

de la matemática,
 2002 - Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena,y Neeraj Kayal del IIT Kanpur un
algoritmo polinómico determinista incondicional de tiempo para determinar si
un número dado es primo,
 2002 - Yasumasa Kanada, Y. Ushiro, Hisayasu Kuroda, Makoto Kudoh y un
equipo de nueve calculan π a 1241.1 billion digits using a Hitachi 64-node
supercomputer,
 2002 - Preda Mihăilescu prueba la conjetura de Catalan,
 2003 - Grigori Perelman prueba la conjetura de Poincaré,
 2007 - Un grupo de investigadores de norteamerica y europa usan redes de
computadoras para encontrar el E8 (matemática).1