📐 Ancient Tools & Mathematics Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (8 Entries)

1. [1709] George Berkeley — In 1709, Berkeley published his first major work An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, in which he discussed the limitations of human vision and advanced the theory that the proper objects of sight are not material objects, but light and colour.
2. [1769] James Hargreaves — He was one of three men responsible for the mechanisation of spinning: Richard Arkwright patented the water frame in 1769 and Samuel Crompton combined the two, creating the spinning mule in 1779.
3. [1950] John Forbes Nash Jr. — In the 1950s, Nash discovered and proved the Nash embedding theorems by solving a system of nonlinear partial differential equations arising in Riemannian geometry.
4. [1960] Heisuke Hironaka — Returning to Harvard in 1960, Hironaka received his PhD for his thesis On the Theory of Birational Blowing-up.
5. [1970] Mikio Sato — In theoretical physicsINK_0@@, Sato wrote a series of papers in the 1970s with Michio Jimbo and Tetsuji Miwa that developed the theory of holonomic quantum fields.
6. [1983] Howard Gardner — He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, as outlined in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
7. [1994] Motoo Kimura — Motoo Kimura (木村 資生, Kimura Motō) (November 13, 1924 – November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
8. [2016] Jim Simons — In 2016, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 6618 Jimsimons, which Clyde Tombaugh discovered in 1936, after Simons in honor of his contributions to mathematics and philanthropy.