Introduced by credits the mathematicians whose work actually created a concept. Wikipedia notes "the modern study of set theory was initiated by the German mathematicians Richard Dedekind and Georg Cantor in the 1870s," with Cantor "commonly considered the founder of set theory." This dimension traces a concept back to the person or people who first built it.
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1. Number Theory (Wikipedia)
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The earliest historical find of an arithmetical nature is the Plimpton 322, dated c. 1800 BC.
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