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Edit made on July 05, 2008 by RiderOfGiraffes at 01:05:05

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HEADERS_END
Perhaps we should list the important advances
* Proof of FermatsLastTheorem
** Wiles and Taylor
* Invention of calculus
** Newton and Leibniz
* Solving the cubic equation
* Solving the general quadratic
* Quintic can't be solved
** Galois
* Angle trisection is impossible
* Cube duplication is impossible
* Continuum hypothesis is both true and false
* Larger infinities
** Cantor
* Eulerian paths
* Complex numbers
* Quaternions
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What follows is now on TimeLine

* 700BC
** ~~624BC Thales born
* 600BC
** ~~569BC Pythagoras born
** ~~547BC Thales died
* 500BC
** ~~490BC Zeno born
** ~~475BC Pythagoras died
** ~~427BC Plato born
** ~~425BC Zeno died
** ~~408BC Eudoxus born
* 400BC
** ~~355BC Eudoxus died
** ~~347BC Plato died
** ~~325BC Euclid born
* 300BC
** ~~287BC Archimedes born
** ~~276BC Eratosthenes born
** ~~265BC Euclid died
** ~~212BC Archimedes died
* 200BC
** ~~194BC Eratosthenes died
* 100BC
* Year dot
* 100AD
* 200AD
* 300AD
* 400AD
* 500AD
* 600AD
* 700AD
* 800AD
* 900AD
* 1000AD
* 1100AD
* 1200AD
* 1300AD
* 1400AD
* 1500AD
** 1564 Galileo born
** 1571 Kepler born
* 1600AD
** 1601 Pierre Fermat born
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1630 Kepler died
** 1642 Galileo died
** 1644 Ole Roemer born
** 1643 Isaac Newton born
** 1665 Pierre Fermat died

* 1700AD
** 1707 Euler born
** 1720 Ole Roemer died
** 1727 Isaac Newton died
** 1728 James Cook born
** 1779 James Cook died
** 1783 Euler died
* 1800AD
* 1900AD

See
* http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Timelines/index.html