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Writing the history of mathematical notation: 1483 - 1700

Sister Mary Leontius Schulte and Albrecht Heeffer (UGent)
(2015)
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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.
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algebra, mathematics, Symbolism

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Schulte, Sister Mary Leontius, and Albrecht Heeffer. Writing the History of Mathematical Notation: 1483 - 1700. Docent Press, 2015.
APA
Schulte, S. M. L., & Heeffer, A. (2015). Writing the history of mathematical notation: 1483 - 1700. Docent Press.
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Schulte, Sister Mary Leontius, and Albrecht Heeffer. 2015. Writing the History of Mathematical Notation: 1483 - 1700. Boston, MA, USA: Docent Press.
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Schulte, Sister Mary Leontius, and Albrecht Heeffer. 2015. Writing the History of Mathematical Notation: 1483 - 1700. Boston, MA, USA: Docent Press.
Vancouver
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Schulte SML, Heeffer A. Writing the history of mathematical notation: 1483 - 1700. Boston, MA, USA: Docent Press; 2015. 262 p.
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S. M. L. Schulte and A. Heeffer, Writing the history of mathematical notation: 1483 - 1700. Boston, MA, USA: Docent Press, 2015.
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  abstract     = {{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.}},
  author       = {{Schulte, Sister Mary Leontius and Heeffer, Albrecht}},
  isbn         = {{9780988744998}},
  keywords     = {{algebra,mathematics,Symbolism}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{262}},
  publisher    = {{Docent Press}},
  title        = {{Writing the history of mathematical notation: 1483 - 1700}},
  url          = {{http://www.amazon.com/Writing-History-Mathematical-Notations-1483-1700/dp/0988744996/}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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