A History Of Mathematical Notations Two Volume In One

Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486161161
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mathematical Notations written by Florian Cajori and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study notes the origin of a mathematical symbol, the competition it encountered, its spread among writers in different countries, its rise to popularity, and its eventual decline or ultimate survival. 1929 edition.

Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mathematical Notations: Notations in elementary mathematics written by Florian Cajori and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Mazur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173370
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightening Symbols written by Joseph Mazur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 symbols became widely adopted. Traversing mathematical history and the foundations of numerals in different cultures, Mazur looks at how historians have disagreed over the origins of the numerical system for the past two centuries. He follows the transfigurations of algebra from a rhetorical style to a symbolic one, demonstrating that most algebra before the sixteenth century was written in prose or in verse employing the written names of numerals. Mazur also investigates the subconscious and psychological effects that mathematical symbols have had on mathematical thought, moods, meaning, communication, and comprehension. He considers how these symbols influence us (through similarity, association, identity, resemblance, and repeated imagery), how they lead to new ideas by subconscious associations, how they make connections between experience and the unknown, and how they contribute to the communication of basic mathematics. From words to abbreviations to symbols, this book shows how math evolved to the familiar forms we use today.

Author : Ekkehard Kopp
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800640978
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics written by Ekkehard Kopp and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research. The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and so to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The narrative moves from the Pythagorean insistence on positive multiples to the gradual acceptance of negative numbers, irrationals and complex numbers as essential tools in quantitative analysis. Within this chronological framework, chapters are organised thematically, covering a variety of topics and contexts: writing and solving equations, geometric construction, coordinates and complex numbers, perceptions of ‘infinity’ and its permissible uses in mathematics, number systems, and evolving views of the role of axioms. Through this approach, the author demonstrates that changes in our understanding of numbers have often relied on the breaking of long-held conventions to make way for new inventions at once providing greater clarity and widening mathematical horizons. Viewed from this historical perspective, mathematical abstraction emerges as neither mysterious nor immutable, but as a contingent, developing human activity. Making up Numbers will be of great interest to undergraduate and A-level students of mathematics, as well as secondary school teachers of the subject. In virtue of its detailed treatment of mathematical ideas, it will be of value to anyone seeking to learn more about the development of the subject.

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principia Mathematica written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Niranjan Jena
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Awareness Reflected in the Atharvaveda written by Niranjan Jena and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Vol. I: I. Numeral notation: 1. A glimpse of ancient India. 2. Hindus and mathematics. 3. Scope and development of Hindu mathematics. 4. Numeral terminology. 5. The development of numerical symbolism. 6. Kharosthi numerals. 7. Brahmi numerals. 8. The decimal place-value system. 9. Persistence of the old system. 10. World numerals. 11. Alphabetic notations. 12. The zero symbol. 13. The place-value notation in Hindu literature. 14. Date of invention of the place-value notation. 15. Hindu numerals in Arabia. 16. Hindu numerals in Europe. 17. Miscellaneous references to the Hindu numerals. 18. Tables. II. Arithmetic: 1. General survey. 2. Addition. 3. Subtraction. 4. Multiplication. 5. Division. 6. Square. 7. Cube. 8. Square-root. 9. Cube-root. 10. Checks on operations. 11. Fractions. 12. The rule of three. 13. Commercial problems. 14. Miscellaneous problems. 15. The mathematics of zero. Bibliography. Index. Vol. II: III. Algebra: 1. General features. 2. Technical terms. 3. Symbols. 4. Laws and signs. 5. Fundamental operations. 6. Equations. 7. Linear equations in one unknown. 8. Linear equations with two unknowns. 9. Linear equations with several unknowns. 10. Quadratic equations. 11. Equations of higher degrees. 12. Simultaneous quadratic equations. 13. Indeterminate equations of the first degree. 14. One linear equation in more than two unknowns. 15. Simultaneous indeterminate equations of the first degree. 16. Solution of Nx+1=y. 17. Cyclic method. 18. Solution of Nxc=y. 19. General indeterminate equations of the second degree: single equations. 20. Rational triangles. 21. Rational quadrilaterals. 22. Single indeterminate equations of higher degrees. 23. Linear functions made squares or cubes. 24. Double equations of the first degree. 25. Double equations of the second degree. 26. Double equations of higher degrees. 27. Multiple equations. 28. Solutions of axy=bx+cy+d. Index. This book at present to historians of mathematics regarding achievements of the early Hindu mathematicians and our indebtedness to them. Our object in writing the present book has been to make up for this deficiency by giving a comprehensive account of the growth and development of the science of mathematics in India from the earliest known times down to the seventeenth century of the Christian era. It has been decided to publish the book in two vols. The first vol. deals with the history of the numeral notations and of arithmetic. The second vol. is devoted to algebra, a science in which the ancient Hindus made remarkable progress.

Author : Stephen Chrisomalis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026236087X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reckonings written by Stephen Chrisomalis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cognitively cumbersome and outdated. In Reckonings, Stephen Chrisomalis considers how humans past and present use numerals, reinterpreting historical and archaeological representations of numerical notation and exploring the implications of why we write numbers with figures rather than words.

Author : Stephen Chrisomalis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521878187
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Numerical Notation written by Stephen Chrisomalis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems, encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies unilinear evolutionary models, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic types of numerical notation systems, tracks relationships between systems, and creates a general model of change that incorporates social, historical, and cognitive factors.

Author : John Derbyshire
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030909657X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unknown Quantity written by John Derbyshire and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages-and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain. Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics-it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us. Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, Unknown Quantity delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.

Author : Victor J. Katz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691156859
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa written by Victor J. Katz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time. This sourcebook presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time. Readers will discover key mathematical revelations, foundational texts, and sophisticated writings by Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking mathematicians, including Abner of Burgos's elegant arguments proving results on the conchoid—a curve previously unknown in medieval Europe; Levi ben Gershon’s use of mathematical induction in combinatorial proofs; Al-Mu’taman Ibn Hūd’s extensive survey of mathematics, which included proofs of Heron’s Theorem and Ceva’s Theorem; and Muhyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī’s interesting proof of Euclid’s parallel postulate. The book includes a general introduction, section introductions, footnotes, and references. The Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa will be indispensable to anyone seeking out the important historical sources of premodern mathematics.