The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

SUBJECT INDEX 585

definition, 32
Delia pictura, 61
Delos, 276
demotic, 116
density, 291
Department of Education, 105
derivative, 463, 469, 473
notation for, 469, 470
derived set, 547
Desargues' theorem, 323
descriptive set theory, 393, 546
determinant, 53, 419
development of a function, 542
diameters of conies, 305
dice, 532
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology,
102
Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 57
difference engine, 150
difference equation, 67
differentiable manifold, 378
differential, 470, 472
differential equation, 67, 389, 472, 474
differential geometry, 343
difformly difform, 330
dimension, 324, 353, 546
Diophantine equation, 163, 175, 178, 188,
410
Dirichlet character, 193
Dirichlet series, 193, 194
Dirichlet's principle, 482
Discourse on Method, 352
discrimination, 530
dispersion, 520
Disquisitiones arithmetica;, 174, 192
Disquisitiones generates circa superficies cur-
vas, 376
distribution, 496
binomial, 523
chi-square, 529
Gaussian, 522
normal, 519, 522-524, 529, 531
Poisson, 523
divination, 10, 14, 29, 175, 210, 522
Divine Comedy, 48
divisibility, 168, 173
division, Egyptian, 131
Doctrine of Chances, 517
dogs, perception of shape, 8
domain of rationality, 451
Doric, 277
double difference, 246, 258
double square umbrella, 250
doubling, 5, 129
doubling the cube, 274-279, 288, 313, 314,
433, 435, 449
doubly periodic function, 493
dozen, 114

dram, 114

Dresden Codex, 37

Dublin, 452

Diiren, 193

e, 517

transcendence, 197

earth, 271

Easter, 11, 129, 157

eccentricity, 512

eclipse, 32

solar, predicted by Thales, 270

Ecole Normale, 72, 448

Ecole Polytechnique, 62, 72, 486

edge law, 388

Edict of Nantes, 517

EDVAC, 153

Egypt, 5, 13, 19, 37, 40-42, 113, 129, 139,

145, 270, 271, 296, 317, 407, 409

Egyptian Museum, 34

elasticity, 379, 383

electromagnetism, 85, 192

element, 271

Elements, 26, 32, 43, 44, 55, 58, 164, 169,

269, 275, 284, 290, 301, 312, 319, 332,

337, 429

ellipse, 8, 9, 277, 314, 356

definition, 306

eccentricity, 8

string property, 315

elliptic function, 191, 194

elliptic geometry, 349

elliptic integral, 90, 450, 507

emolumentum, 520

Emperor Yu, 172

Encyclopadie, 486

energy, thermal, 525

engineering, 129

ENIAC, 150

entropy, 523, 526

envelope, 375, 376

epanthema, 409, 429

equation

cubic, 55, 61, 202, 206, 401, 423, 425, 432,

434, 437

in two variables, 394

resolvent, 432

cyclotomic, 447

differential, 474, 507

Diophantine, 188, 404, 410

gravitational, 385

heat, 478

Laplace's, 498

Pell's, 181, 190

quadratic, 235, 401, 407, 420, 423, 437,

460

applications, 434

positive roots, 421