Around 1900 B.C., a student in the Sumerian city of Nippur, in what’s now Iraq, copied a multiplication table onto a clay tablet. Some 4,000 years later, that schoolwork survives, as do the student’s ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. §6.1 THE BRITISH ISLES PRODUCED some fine mathematicians during the period from the ...

Here's a timeline from University of Georgia math education experts Jeremy Kilpatrick and Andrew Izsák: · Before 1700, algebra was absent from the curriculum of children's schools, early colleges and ...

§2.1 FROM EGYPT TO EGYPT: Diophantus, 15 the father of algebra, in whose honor I have named this chapter, lived in Alexandria, in Roman Egypt, in either the 1st, the 2nd, or the 3rd century CE. I ...