The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

584 SUBJECT INDEX

combinatory product, 380
comet, 521
compactness, 391
compass, 335
Compendium, 471
completeness, 537, 552, 555
completing the square, 423
complex number, 187
composite number, 165
composite ratio, 353
compound interest, 403
Comptes rendus, 550
computer program, 4
computers, 139
computing, 146
conchoid, 280-282
conditional probability, 524
conditioning, 8
cone, 276
frustum, 324
volume, 298
conformal mapping, 376, 380
Confucianism, 28
conic section, 46, 62, 304-310, 352, 394, 471
conical projection, 327
Conies, 55, 296, 315, 323, 335, 337
conjugate points, 481
connectedness, 390
connectivity of a surface, 384
conservation law, 475
conservation of energy, 385
consistency, 537, 552, 555
Constantinople, 43, 303, 317
constructivism, 547
continuity, 390
pointwise, 391
uniform, 391
continuum, 284, 390
continuum hypothesis, 547
convergence
Abel-Poisson, 501
coordinate system, 9
coordinates
barycentric, 368
Cartesian, 327, 352
homogeneous, 370
line, 370
point, 370
Copenhagen, 208
Copper Eskimo, 111
Cordoba, 332
corner (Egyptian square root), 400
corner condition, 483
cosecant, 260
coset, 448
cosine, 260, 268
Cosmos, 86
cotangent, 260

countable set, 549

counting, 3

counting board, 51, 135, 146, 253, 413

counting rods, 51, 135, 146, 198

Courant Institute, 69

Cours d'analyse, 498, 502

Cramer's paradox, 356

Cramer's rule, 356

Crelle's Journal, 73

Crete, 276

Crimean War, 87

cross-ratio, 356

Croton, 271

cube, 274, 275, 288

doubling, 274-279,313, 314,433, 435, 449

cube root, 414

cubic equation, 202, 206, 401, 417, 425, 437

cubit, 235, 239

cun, 248

cuneiform, 12, 13, 16, 35, 159, 265, 270

currency conversion, 428

curvature, 346, 469

Gaussian, 377, 395

geodesic, 379

curvature of a surface, 375

curves, homologous, 388

curvilinear problem, 280

Cutting Off of a Ratio, 305

cybernetics, 67

cycle, 460

cyclic quadrilateral, 263, 268

cycloid, 371, 465, 469

area, 466

tangent to, 465

cycloidal pendulum, 372, 373

Cyclops, 166

cyclotomic equation, 447

cylinder, 276, 303-304, 360

area, 238

volume, 298

Cyzicus, 288

Danish Academy of Sciences, 376

Data, 45, 55, 296, 323, 337, 429

De arte combinatoria, 214, 515

De configurationibus qualitatum et motuum,

331

De divina proportione, 358

De numeris datis, 429, 435

De quadratra arithmetica circuit, 203

De ratiociniis in ludo aletE, 514

De revolutionibus, 338

De Thiende, 144

De triangulis omnimodis, 60, 331, 338

decimal system, 143, 144, 146, 197

declination, 261

decumanus maximus, 327

Dedekind cuts, 206

Dedomena, 299