50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know

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hexadecimal system 204
hieroglyphs 15
highest common factor 61
Hilbert, David 75 , 99 , 203
Hindu-Arabic numbers 4 , 8
hyperbola 88 , 115
hyperspace 97 –8
hypothesis 204


I
i 33 –4
icosahedron 93
imaginary numbers 32 –5, 204
indirect method 70
infinity (∞) 6 , 28 –31
integration 76 , 79 , 205
interest 25 , 176 –9
irrational numbers 19 , 21 , 25 , 30–1, 205
iteration 100 –1, 205


J
Jordan, Camille 90 –1


K
Kirkman, Rev. Thomas 114 , 167
Klein bottle 94 , 95
Koch snowflake 102 , 103


L
Lagrange, Joseph 39 , 154
Laplace, Marquis Pierre-Simon de 104 , 140
Latin squares 167 , 172 –5
least common multiple (lcm) 61
Legendre, Adrien Marie 109 , 198
Leibniz, Gottfried 55 , 76 , 78 , 79
lemma 205
lemniscate 90
Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) 4 , 44 –7, 54
light, speed of 193 –4

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