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

ISBN: 0691173370

ISBN13: 9780691173375

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

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An entertaining look at the origins of mathematical symbols

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...

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