1. Daniel Blanchette, Christian Landry

2. 1300BC1300BC Babylonians Solved quadratics of the form x 2 + p = qx

3. Chinese are solving quadratic by completing the square 200 BC200 BC

4. Brahmagupta solves quadratic for positive roots only 628AD628AD

5. Yang Hui solves quadratic with negative roots using Pascal’s Triangle 12611261

8. Johannes Guttenberg invents the printing press 14501450

9. - Ottoman empire captures Constantinople - Fall of Byzantine empire - End of 100 year war 14531453

11. - End of Thirteen year war. - Royal Prussia annexed to Poland. 14661466

12. - Unification of Spain - Wedding of Isabela 1 of Castile to Ferdinand Aragon 14691469

14. - Spanish Inquisition begins 14811481

15. - John Widmann uses the + and – signs for the first time in a printed book 14891489

16. - Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas 14921492

17. - Lucia Pacioli writes summa de Arithmetica 14941494

18. - Michealangelo begins work on the Statue of David 15011501

19. -Nilakantha Somayaji writes Tantra sangraha 15011501

20. - Da Vinci begins to paint the Mona Lisa 15031503

21. - Coppernicius says the earth resolves around the sun 15121512

23. - Aztec Empire falls - Montezuma II is killed 15211521

26. - Rome is sacked - End of Italian Renaissance 15271527

28. - England renounces the papacy - King Henry VIII head of Church of England 15311531

29. - Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for France 15341534

30. -Feburary 6 th 1465 – November 5 th 1526 - First to solve depressed cubic - Not much known about mathematics

31. - ? 1499 – December 13 th 1557 - Engineer, Mathematician - Translated Euclid, Archimedes - Studied path of Cannonball - Devised a method to obtain binomial Coefficients - Volume of tetrahedron given lengths - Solved cubic, did not publish.

32. -September 24 th 1501 - September 21 st 1576 - Mathematician, Inventor, Physician, Lawyer - First to describe Typhoid Fever - First to acknowledge imaginary numbers - First to write systematically about Probability - First to publish solution to cubic, quartic - Introduced Binomial Coefficients and theorem

37.  A polynomial with an odd order must have at least one solution that is real. Why?

39.  Where have you seen the use of auxiliary equations before?

41.  How did Yang Hui obtain negative roots?

42.  Gauss wrote “Oh..Great Archimedes, How come you did not make this discovery? If you had done that, the world would have been thousand of years more advanced”  Do you agree with Gauss?, If yes, why is it that the author of this book did not cover more about Brahmagupta?