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312 pages • first pub 2014 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691173375
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Edition Pub Date: 06 December 2016
Description
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 ...
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312 pages • first pub 2014 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691173375
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Edition Pub Date: 06 December 2016
Description
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 ...