[PDF.79ce] Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers

Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers

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 | #1067426 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2016-12-06 | Original language:English |  9.20 x.90 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

 | Princeton University Press

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||27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.| A Deeper Etymology, less scary symbols, and Works Well on Kindle too...|By Let's Compare Options Preptorial|We've all been disappointed when we got a Kindle title (or any e reader) and the MathML or LaTex was slaughtered. Since this book has numerous symbols but not a lot of complex formulas, Kindle is not a problem. Where there are "sentences" in math symbols, they are handl| |"Mazur (Euclid in the Rainforest) gives readers the fascinating history behind the mathematical symbols we use, and completely take for granted, every day. Mathematical notation turns numbers into sentences--or, to the uninitiated, a mysterious and impe

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 sh...

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