Much of the history of mathematics focuses on the Greeks (500 B.C.E.–400 C.E.), the founders of modern Western mathematical rigor. For a long time, the common notion was that little happened from the end of the Greek period until the solution of the general cubic equation in the Renaissance. However, mathematics in the period between the Greeks and the Renaissance, 400 C.E.– 1500 C.E., showed originality in both presentation and content.
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