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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...

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Autor principal: Mazur, Joseph
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Princeton University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1728252