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

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

Joseph Mazur

285 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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An entertaining look at the origins of mathematical symbolsWhile 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 d...

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