Mathematics / Logic Timeline Outline

The First Securely Datable Mathematical Table in World History
(Circa 2,600 BCE)

One of the Earliest Medical and Mathematical Documents
(Circa 2,000 BCE)

The First Known Description of a Binary Numerical System
(Circa 500 BCE)

The Porphyrian Tree: The Earliest Metaphorical Tree of Knowledge
(270 CE)

Computus
(525)

Earliest Western Reference to Indian or Arabic Numerals
(662)

Origins of the Term Algebra
(Circa 830)

The Earliest Surviving Manuscript Closest to Euclid's Original Text
(Circa 850)

The Earliest Record of the Use of Arabic Numerals in Europe
(976)

Originator of the Concept of Mathematical Function
(Circa 1150)

Survival of the Works of Archimedes was Dependent upon Three Manuscripts, Only One of Which Survived to the Present
(1269 – 1544)

The First Dated Printed Book on Arithmetic and the Operation of the Abacus
(December 10, 1478)

The Most Famous Textbook Ever Published
(May 25, 1482)

Among the Earliest Printed Mathematical Tables
(July 4, 1483)

The First Great General Work on Mathematics
(November 10 – November 20, 1494)

The First Book Published in England Devoted Exclusively to Mathematics
(October 14, 1522)

The First Printed Edition of the Greek Text of Euclid
(September 1533)

Classic of Mannerist Book Illustration and Printing
(June 28, 1560)

One of the Earliest Pop-Up Books
(1570)

Classic of Mathematics and Typography
(1579)

The Gregorian Calendar
(February 24, 1582)

The First "Computer Manual"
(1606)

The Invention of Logarithms
(1614)

Napier's Bones & the Lightning Calculator
(1617)

Kepler Creates Logarithms by a New Procedure
(1624 – 1625)

The First Complete Set of Modern Logarithms
(1628)

Descartes Discusses the Idea of an Artificial Language
(1629)

The Circular Form of Slide Rule
(1632)

"Je pense, donc je suis."
(1637)

Fermat's Last Theorem
(1637)

The Pascaline
(1642)

The Mathematical Organ
(1668)

More Affordable and Easier to Use than the Pascaline
(1671)

First Book on a Calculating Machine Published in English
(1672)

Leibnitz Invents the Stepped Drum Gear Calculator
(1673 – 1710)

The Mathematical Analysis of Pendulum Motion
(1673)

Leibniz on Binary Arithmetic
(March 15, 1679 – 1705)

First Publication on the Differential Calculus
(1684)

Newton's Principia Mathematica
(1687)

The First Independently Published Bibliography of Mathematics
(1688)

Newton's Opticks
(1704)

First Description of the Stepped-Drum Calculator
(1710)

First Publication of Newton's Early Writings on the Calculus
(1711)

Newton - Leibniz Dispute over Invention of the Calculus
(1712)

Theory of Annuities
(1725)

Possibly the Earliest Reference to a Fictional Device that Resembles a Modern Computer
(1726)

The Problem of the Konigsberg Bridges: The Birth of Network Science
(1736)

One of the Earliest Histories of a Science
(1742)

The First Correct Life Tables
(1746 – 1760)

The First Extensive Treatise on the Peruvian Knot-Based Counting Language, the Quipu
(1750)

The Earliest Formal Treatment of "Data-Processing"
(1755)

Bayes's Theorem
(1763)

Computing the "Seaman's Bible"
(1766)

Mathematical Tables Calculated by Hairdressers Unemployed after the French Revolution
(1793 – 1801)

Discovery of the Method of Least Squares
(1795)

Celestial Mechanics
(1799 – 1827)

Gradual Disappearance of the Long S in Typography
(Circa 1800 – 1820)

The Prince of Mathematicians
(1801)

First Publication of the Method of Least Squares
(1805)

The Meter (Metre) is Calculated Scientifically
(1806 – 1821)

Babbage Begins Construction of his Difference Engine
(1822)

The Fourier Series
(1822)

Describing the Logic and Operation of Machinery by Means of Notation
(1826)

Non-Euclidean Geometry
(1829 – 1830)

Non-Euclidean Geometry Independently Discovered
(1832 – 1833)

Decipherment of the Mayan System of Counting
(1832)

Solution of Differential Equations Using a Mechanical Device
(1836)

Poe Writes Maelzel's Chess Player
(April 1836)

Mathematical Model of a Continuously Growing Population
(1838)

The First Published Computer Programs
(1842)

Translated and Augmented by Lord Byron's Daughter
(1843)

"Without being Worked out by Human Head & Hands. . ."
(July 10, 1843)

Boolean Algebra
(1847)

The First Separately Published Bibliography on the History of Science
(1847)

The "Computer" Might Occupy a Space Larger than London
(1851)

The First Modern Institution of Learning in Iran
(1851)

Boolean Algebra
(1854)

One of the Most Remarkable Human Computers
(1856)

Lissajous Figures
(1857)

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
(1864)

Field Equations
(1865)

The First Logic Machine to Solve Complicated Problems Faster than Man
(1870)

Mathematical Study of Anthropological Data
(1871)

The First Catalogue of a Library on Computing and its History
(1872)

The Principia of Thermodynamics
(1874 – 1878)

Invention of Calculators Using a True Variable-Toothed Gear
(Circa 1875)

The First Logarithmic Table Produced by a Calculating Machine
(1875)

Invention of the Integraph
(1878)

Foundation of Modern Mathematical Logic
(1879)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
(1884)

Publication of the Tables of de Prony
(1891)

Nomograms: A Graphical Method of Calculation
(1891)

The First International Exhibition of Mathematical Devices
(September 1893)

Lewis Carroll Wrote or Received 98,000 Letters
(January 14, 1898)

Mathematische Probleme
(1900)

The First Library of Rare Science Books Formed by an American
(1908)

Principia Mathematica
(1910 – 1913)

How the Quipu System of Mathematical Record-Keeping Worked
(1912)

Summarizing the State of the Computer Industry Prior to World War I
(July 24 – July 27, 1914)

The Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem
(1915)

The Basis for Computed Tomography
(1917)

The Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem
(1920)

The Basic Equations for Two-Species Interactions
(1926)

Is Mathematics Complete, is it Consistent, and is it Decidable?
(1928)

Using a Commercial Accounting Machine as a Difference Engine
(1928)

Hartley's Law
(1928)

The Minimax Theorem
(1928)

The Deduction Theorem
(1930)

Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
(1931)

The Rapid Arithmetical Machine Project
(1936)

Proof of Undecidability
(1936)

Turing Studies with Alonzo Church
(1936 – 1938)

"On Computable Numbers"
(May 1936)

The Turing Machine
(August 1936)

The Post-Turing Machine
(October 1936)

Turing and von Neumann Discuss What Will Eventually be Called "Artificial Intelligence"
(1937)

The First Electromechanical Computer Built in America
(November 1937)

Zuse Completes the Z1
(1938)

Turing Reports to Bletchley Park
(September 4, 1939)

Communication Theory as a Statistical Problem
(1942)

Walter Pitts Works with Norbert Wiener
(1943)

The First Computing Journal
(1943)

The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
(1944)

John von Neumann Visits the ENIAC in Development
(September 1944)

The First Theoretical Description of a Stored-Program Computer
(June 30, 1945)

The First Mathematical Tables Calculated by a Programmed Automatic Computer
(Circa October 1945)

Max Newman Founds the Computer Laboratory at Manchester
(July 1946)

A Soroban Beats an Electric Calculator
(November 12, 1946)

Cybernetics: The First Widely Distributed Book on Electronic Computing
(1948)

Proof that a Program Could Reproduce Itself
(December 1949)

The ENIAC is Retired
(1955)

The Computer and the Brain
(1955)

Origins of The Term "Software"
(1956 – January 1958)

The First Artificial Intelligence Program
(July 1956)

von Neumann Dies
(February 8, 1957)

Game Tree Pruning
(October 1958)

The Nautical Almanac is Finally Produced by an Electronic Computer
(1959)

The First Journal on Computing Changes its Name
(1960)

The Resolution Principle
(January 1965)

The Cooley-Tukey FFT Algorithm
(April 1965)

The First Hand-Held Electronic Calculator
(1967 – June 25, 1974)

The Viterbi Algorithm
(1967)

The First Marketed, Mass-Produced Programmable Calculator, or Personal Computer
(1968)

The Fractal Geometry of Nature
(1975 – 1982)

Making MRI Feasible
(1977)

TEX and Metafont
(1977 – 1979)

Coining the Term Computer Virus
(November 10, 1983)

Mathematica 1.0
(1988)

Statistical Machine Translation
(1993)

The First Intelligible Word from an Extinct South American Civilization?
(August 12, 2005)

Using Currency Movements to Predict the Spread of Infectious Disease
(January 26, 2006)

Previously Unknown Speeches by Hyperides
(November 2006)

Toward a World Digital Mathematics Library
(July 27, 2008)

Culturomics Introduced by the Cultural Observatory
(December 16, 2010)

2.5 Quintillion Bytes of Data Each Day
(October 23, 2012)