The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

(^582) SUBJECT INDEX with defect, 272, 306, 310 with excess, 272, 306, 310 Arabic mathematics, 32 arc, 258 Archimedes axiom of, ...

SUBJECT INDEX 583 Britain, 38, 325 British Commonwealth, 72 British Museum, 34, 140, 241, 244 broken bamboo problem, 266 Brookly ...

584 SUBJECT INDEX combinatory product, 380 comet, 521 compactness, 391 compass, 335 Compendium, 471 completeness, 537, 552, 555 ...

SUBJECT INDEX 585 definition, 32 Delia pictura, 61 Delos, 276 demotic, 116 density, 291 Department of Education, 105 derivative, ...

586 SUBJECT INDEX quartic, 431-432, 437, 442 quintic, 446, 449 solution by radicals, 431 wave, 477, 497, 498, 507 equations Fren ...

SUBJECT INDEX 587 Gaussian curvature, 192, 377, 395 Gaussian distribution, 64, 522 Gaussian domain, 458 Gaussian elimination, 40 ...

588 SUBJECT INDEX honeycomb, 322 Horner's method, 415 horocycle, 346 Horologium oscillatorium, 371 horosphere, 343, 346 Horus, 1 ...

SUBJECT INDEX 589 Kingdom of Wei, 31 knitting, 9 Kokon Sampd-ki, 53, 418 Konigsberg, 60, 189, 483 bridges of, 9, 386 Korea, 27, ...

(^590) SUBJECT INDEX mathematical research, 73 mathematics education, 154 Mathematics Magazine, 188 mathematikoi, 271 Ëßáß/iemat ...

SUBJECT INDEX 591 normal distribution, 64, 519, 522-524, 529, 531 normal subgroup, 449 North America Act, 66 North Carolina Cent ...

592 SUBJECT INDEX Patna, 24 Paulisha Siddhanta, 24 pedagogical ordering, 8 pedagogy, 31 Pell's equation, 181, 190 Peloponnesian ...

SUBJECT INDEX 593 Qin Dynasty, 27 quadratic equation, 235, 401, 407, 420, 437, 460 positive roots, 421 quadratic formula, 416 qu ...

594 SUBJECT INDEX Scythians, 325 secant, 260, 298, 330 second, 114 second category, 506 second law of thermodynamics, 525 Second ...

SUBJECT INDEX 595 Summa de arithmetica, 60, 429 Sun Zi Suan Jing, 51, 135, 137, 145, 156, 164, 172, 210 Sun, altitude, 246, 261, ...

596 SUBJECT INDEX uniformly difform motion, 330 unique factorization, 200 unique factorization domain. 458 unit, 3, 30, 341 unit ...

SUBJECT INDEX 597 Yuan Dynasty, 28 Zahlkorper, 451 Zahlring, 451 Zaire, 9 zero, 135, 187, 421 cancellation, 422 zero divisor, 45 ...

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Name Index Abel, Niels Henrik, 84, 90, 446, 451, 455, 474, 486, 492, 503 Absolon, Karel, 6 Abu Kamil, 434 Abu'l-Wafa, 57, 143 Ab ...

600 NAME INDEX Bianchi, Luigi, 385 Bienayme, Irenee-Jules, 523 Biggs, N. L., 212, 214 Birkhoff, George David, 67 al-Biruni, 24, ...

NAME INDEX 601 al-Daffa, Abu AH, 143, 199 Dahan-Dalmedico, Amy, 84 Dante, 48, 74 Darboux, Gaston, 498 Darwin, Charles, 529 Daube ...