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TABLE OF CONTENTS PIRAQRAPER Crossed Numerals Representing Powers of Unknowns . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 Descartes' z. y. x . . . . . . . . . . 340 Spread of Descartesl Signs . 341 Signs of Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . 342-56 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Aggregation Expressed by Letters . 343 Aggregation Expressed by Horizontal Bars or Vincu- lums . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 Aggregation Expressed by Dots . . 345 Aggregation Expressed by Commas . . . 349 Aggregation Expressed by Parentheses . 350 Early Occurrence of Parentheses . 351 Terms in an Aggregate Placed in a I'erticnl Column 353 MarkingBinomialCoefficients . 354 Special Uses of Parentheses . 355 A Star to Mark the Absence of Terms . 356 IV . SYMBOLS IN GEOMETRY (ELEMENTARY PART) . . . . . A . Ordinary Elementary Geometry . . . . Early Use of Pictographs . . . . . . . . . Signs for Angles . . . . . . . . . . . Signs for " Perpendicular" . . . . . . . . . Signs for Triangle. Square. Rectangle. I'arallelograin . The Square as an Operator . . . . . . . . Sign for Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . Signs for Parallel Lines . . . . . . . . . Signs for Equal and Parallel . . . . . . . . Signs for Arcs of Circles . . . . . . . . . Other Pictographs . . . . . . . . . . . Signs for Similarity and Congruence . . . . . . The Sign + for Equivalence . . . . . . . . Lettering of Geometric Figures . . . . . . . Sign for Spherical Excess . . . . . . . . . Symbols in the Statement of Theorems . . . . . Signs for Incommensurables . . . . . . . . Unusual Ideographs in Elementary Geometry . . . Algebraic Symbols in Elementary Geometry . . . B . Past Struggles between Symbolists and Rhetoricians in Elementary Geometry . . . . . . . . . .
FIGURE 1 . BABYLONIAN TABLETS ILLUSTRATIONS PAIIAORAPHP OF NIPPUR . . . . . . . . . 4 4 . MATHEMATICAL CUNEIFORM TABLET CBS 8536 IN TIIE MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA . . . . . . . . 26 . CHR . RUDOLFF'S NUMERALS 27 . A CONTRACT. MEXICO CITY. 1649 ... Xlll AND FRACTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ALPHABETICAL INDEX Birks, John, omi
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h o ~ u c m TO o THE ~ SECOND VOL-
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAEAQBbPHB Expone
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INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND VOLUME I
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TOPICAL SURVEY OF SYMBOLS IN ARITHM
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LE I'TERS REPRESENTING MAGNITUDES .
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LETTERS n AND e 9 William Oughtred1
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DOLLAR MARK 15 The use of the lette
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THEORY OF NUMBERS 29 405. Conclusio
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THEORY OF NUMBERS complex integers
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THEORY OF COMBINATIONS 61 438. The
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THEORY OF COMBINATIONS 73 A new des
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