Who was an early mathmatician whos systems and ideas are still used commonly in a 9th grade algebra class (I'm doing a report and will choose and give 5 stars to the best answer!!!)
2006-12-31 05:40:39 · 8 answers · asked by John G 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
2006-12-31 05:45:08 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mahavira and Bhaskara-India
Zhu Shijie-China
Kowa Seki-Japan
Gottfried Leibniz and Gabriel Cramer
check out the Rig Vedas-specifies something about Algebra
Muḥammad ibn MÅ«sÄ al-ḴwÄrizmÄ«-wrote "Al-Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala" started with linear and quadratic equations
2006-12-31 14:04:30 · answer #2 · answered by rebel_chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pythagoras
2007-01-01 12:26:16 · answer #3 · answered by Paul B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pythagoras developed the Pythagorean Theorem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
2006-12-31 14:03:48 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh how about Sir Isaac Newton. The whole apple falling from the tree and calculus and physics thing
2006-12-31 15:11:24 · answer #5 · answered by Jared H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pythagoras. Some math is also attributed to Aristotle.
2006-12-31 15:12:34 · answer #6 · answered by flywho 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Descartes?
2006-12-31 14:39:23 · answer #7 · answered by teamteacher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as i know...for geometry its eyklidis...now for algebra maybe pythagoras...my geometry book is called ''eykleidios geometry''.(.i m greek...)
2006-12-31 15:11:49 · answer #8 · answered by ursula!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋