Writing the history of mathematical notation
Subtitle: 1483-1700
By: Sister Mary Leontius Schulte ; with an introduction by Albrecht Heeffer and bibliographical notes by Douglas R. Furman
Publisher: Docent Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780988744998
Subjects: Mathematical notation; Arithmetic; History; Numerals; Early works to 1900; Bibliography
Description: "Mathematical notations such as the plus sign and the minus sign are as familiar as the letters of the alphabet but each mathematical symbol has a history all of its own which is quite separate from the history of literary glyphs. This book takes as its starting point two renowned histories of mathematical notation, those of Florian Cajori and Johannes Tropfke, and through careful examination of additional texts pushes the origins of many arithmetical notations further back in time. The book takes full advantage of recent large-scale digitization initiatives by including snippets from original texts that show the early usage and evolution of these notations." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Gift of Docent Press, 2014
Table of contents: title: Pt.1 Introduction; title: Pt.2 Biography of Catherine Mary Schulte; title: Pt.3 Additions in arithmetic, 1483-1700, to the sources of Cajori's History of mathematical notations and Tropfke's Geschichte der Elementar-Mathematik.