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

Document Type

Book Review

Department or Administrative Unit

Mathematics

Publication Date

2015

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.

Comments

This article was originally published in The College Mathematics Journal. The full-text article from the publisher can be found here.

Due to copyright restrictions, this article is not available for free download through ScholarWorks @ CWU.

Journal

The College Mathematics Journal

Copyright

Copyright © 2015 The Mathematical Association of America

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