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Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
Enlightening Symbols A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
Author: Joseph Mazur
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691154633
ISBN-10: 0691154635
Publication Date: 3/23/2014
Pages: 296
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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