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Enlightening symbols : a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers /
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| 자료유형 | E-Book |
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| 개인저자 | Mazur, Joseph, author. |
| 서명/저자사항 | Enlightening symbols :a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers /Joseph Mazur. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (xxiii, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN | 9781400850112 1400850118 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | 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. |
| 요약 | 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 ... |
| 일반주제명 | Mathematical notation -- History. MATHEMATICS -- Essays. MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus. MATHEMATICS -- Reference. Mathematical notation. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version:Mazur, Joseph.Enlightening symbols.Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]9780691154633 |
| 대출바로가기 | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=667391 |
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