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040 _cHSLRC
050 _aQA41.R65 2025
100 _aRojas, Raúl,
_d1955-
_eauthor.
_961109
240 1 0 _aLenguaje de las matemáticas.
_kEnglish
245 _aThe language of mathematics :
_bthe stories behind the symbols /
_cRaúl Rojas ; translated by Eduardo Aparicio.
250 _aFirst English edition.
264 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2025]
300 _axv, 258 pages
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
521 _a"Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories of the most commonly used symbols in mathematics, providing readers with an engaging introduction to the origins, evolution, and conceptual meaning of each one. In dozens of lively and informative entries, Raúl Rojas shows how today's mathematics stands on the shoulders of giants, mathematicians from around the world who developed mathematical notation through centuries of collective effort. He tells the stories of such figures as al-Khwarizmi, René Descartes, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, David Hilbert, and Kenneth Iverson. Topics range from numbers and variables to sets and functions, constants, and combinatorics. Rojas describes the mathematical problems associated with different symbols and reveals how mathematical notation has sometimes been an accidental process. The entries are self-contained and can be read in any order, each one examining one or two symbols, their history, and the variants they may have had over time. An essential companion for math enthusiasts, The Language of Mathematics shows how mathematics is a living and evolving entity, forever searching for the best symbolism to express relationships between abstract concepts and to convey meaning"--
_bProvided by publisher.
650 _aMathematical notation.
_961110
650 _aMathematical notation
_xHistory.
_961111
650 _aMathematics
_xHistory.
_961112
700 _aAparicio, Eduardo,
_etranslator.
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_cBK
999 _c98894
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