HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL NOTATIONS: HIGHER MATHEMATICS

By N. CAORY

Part 1 Numerals 1 1 Curious Beginnings 3 2 Certain Ancient Number Systems 10 3 Silk and Royal Roads 26 4 ¿e Indian Gi 35 5 Arrival in Europe 51 6 ¿e Arab Gi 60 7 Liber Abbaci 64 8 Refuting Origins 73 Part 2 Algebra 81 9 Sans Symbols 85 10 Diophantus’s Arithmetica 93 11 ¿e Great Art 109 12 Symbol Infancy 116 13 ¿e Timid Symbol 127 14 Hierarchies of Dignity 133 15 Vowels and Consonants 141 16 ¿e Explosion 150 17 A Catalogue of Symbols 160 18 ¿e Symbol Master 165 19 ¿e Last of the Magicians 169 Part 3 The Power of Symbols 177 20 Rendezvous in the Mind 179 21 ¿e Good Symbol 189 22 Invisible Gorillas 192 23 Mental Pictures 210 24 Conclusion 216