Mathematics History

A rough timetable of Western mathematical pursuit is as follows:

• Prehistoric: Before roughly 3000 B.C.
• Egyptian: 3000 B.C. to 1600 B.C.
• Babylonian: 1700 B.C. to 500 B.C.
• Greek: 600 B.C. to 200 B.C.
• Greco-Roman: 150 A.D. to 525 A.D.
• Islamic: 750 A.D. to 1450 A.D.
• Western: 1100 A.D. to 1600 A.D.
• Modern: 1600 A.D. to the present

This list excludes non-Western centres of mathematical activity, such as China, Japan, India, and the Maya, Aztec, and Inca empires.