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Enlightening symbols : a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers /
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 w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.