a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers /
نام نخستين پديدآور
Joseph Mazur
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xxiii, 285 pages :
ساير جزييات
illustrations ;
ابعاد
24 cm
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متن يادداشت
Includes index
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متن يادداشت
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 dignity ; Vowels and consonants ; The explosion ; A catalogue of symbols ; The symbol master ; The last of the magicians -- The power of symbols. Rendezvous in the mind ; The good symbol ; Invisible gorillas ; Mental pictures -- Appendix A. Leibniz's notation -- Appendix B. Newton's fluxion of x [superscript n] -- Appendix C. Experiment -- Appendix D/ Visualizing complex numbers -- Appendix E. Quaternions
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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 writer Joseph Mazur explains the fascinating history behind the development of our mathematical notation system. He shows how symbols were used initially, how one symbol replaced another over time, and how written math was conveyed before and after ...
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Mathematical notation-- History
موضوع مستند نشده
Mathematical notation / History
موضوع مستند نشده
Mathematics
موضوع مستند نشده
Mathematics / History
موضوع مستند نشده
Numerals / History
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
510
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1/48
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
QA41
نشانه اثر
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M39
2014
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