Enlightening symbols : a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers / Joseph Mazur...
Enlightening symbols : a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers / Joseph Mazur...
Enlightening symbols : a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers / Joseph Mazur.
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Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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G 2014/3980
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English
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Physical content
xxiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Numerals. Curious beginnings ; Certain ancient number systems ; Silk and Royal roads ; The Indian gift ; Arrival in Europe ; The Arab gift ; Liber abbaci ; Refuting origins -- Algebra. Sans symbols ; Diophantus's Arithmetica ; The great art ; Symbol infancy ; The timid symbol ; Hierarchies of dignit...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know today? In Enlightening Symbols, popular math wri...
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Enlightening symbols : a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers / Joseph Mazur.
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Includes index.
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G 2014/3980
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74VKKwQxDMgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKwQxDMgM
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ISBN
0691154635 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691154633 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
510.1/48
MMS ID
991021731599702626
