Book Review: Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers

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Mathematics

Document Type

Book Review

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Copyright © 2015 The Mathematical Association of America

Publication Date

2015

Journal

The College Mathematics Journal

Abstract

The author reviews the book Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers by Joseph Mazur, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 2014, xxiii + 285 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-15463-3.

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