Math Seminar | 50 Centuries in 50 Minutes: A Brief History of Mathematics

By John Dersch on September 19, 2012. How did we get the mathematics that is studied today? Who was responsible for major advances in the mathematics that we now take for granted? When and where did this work take place? Such questions are addressed by tracing the development of mathematics from 3000 B.C. to the dawn of the 21st century.