The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

588 SUBJECT INDEX

honeycomb, 322
Horner's method, 415
horocycle, 346
Horologium oscillatorium, 371
horosphere, 343, 346
Horus, 123, 131
Horus-eye parts, 131
l'Hospital's rule, 473
Howard University, 65
Huguenots, 517
Hundred Fowls Problem, 406
Hungary, 60
hyperbola, 277, 306
rectangular, 425
hyperbolic function, 341
hyperbolic geometry, 340, 342, 378
hyperbolic paraboloid, 395
/ Ching, 10, 172, 522
Iceland, 325
icosahedron, 450
Idea, 44
ideal number, 459
Iliad, 283
Ilkhan, 58
imaginary geometry, 345
inclusion-exclusion principle, 513
incommensurables, 202, 284-285, 287, 488
incompleteness theorems, 552
independent trials, 513
India, 12, 37, 40, 58, 113, 143, 145, 197, 246,
407, 463
Indian Statistical Institute, 26
Indiana, 236
induction, 538, 540, 543
transfinite, 547
Indus River, 21
infinite, 295, 421
infinite precision, 7
infinite series, 22
infinitely divisible, 3
infinitesimals, 470, 490
infinity, 421
inflection point, 374
inheritance, 145
Institute for Advanced Study, 100
Institute for Scientific Computing, 179
Institutiones calculi, 474
Institutions de physique, 82
insurance, 522, 543
integral, 463, 473
elliptic, 507
Fourier, 500
non-elementary, 474
notation for, 469, 471
Riemann, 502
integral domain, 451
integrating factor, 475
integration, 440

International Congress of Mathematicians,

29, 68, 98, 195, 457

Introductio in analysin infinitorum, 474, 490

Introduction to Set Theory, 557

involute, 371

Ionia, 42

Iran, 57

Iraq, 54, 57, 143

Ireland, 58

irrational number, 199, 200

Ishango, 6

Ishango Bone, 14

Isis, 123

Isis and Osiris, 237

isoperimetric inequality, 318, 348

isoperimetric problem, 322

isotherms, 379, 382

Istituzioni analitiche, 474

Italian Geographical Society, 86

Italy, 3, 60, 285, 317

Jacobi inversion problem, 493, 495

Jainas, 209, 212

Jainism, 21-22

Japan, 3, 32, 420

Japanese Mathematical Society, 73

Jena, 552

Jerusalem, 69

Jesuits, 28, 32, 40

Jinko-ki, 52, 180, 252

Jiu Zhang Suanshu, 30, 31, 33, 35, 51, 145,

156, 164, 249, 251, 266, 405, 413, 434

Johns Hopkins University, 66, 68, 73, 88,101

Jones polyomial, 71

Josephus problem, 180-181

Journal de VEcole Mormale Suparieure, 73

Journal de VUcole Polytechnique, 73

Journal de mathfynatiqy.es pures et appliquies,

380

Journal fur die reine und angewandte Math-

ematik, 73, 90, 446, 452

Julian calendar, 123, 157

Julian day calendar, 124

Jupiter, 177

jurisprudence, 543

Kaballah, 11

Kai Fukudai no Ho, 419

Kaliningrad, 386

karat, 114

kardo maximus, 327

Kattigara, 326

Kazan' Physico-Mathematical Society, 344

Kelvin temperature, 526

Ketsugi-sho, 254

khar, 239

khet, 235

Khorasan, 57

Kievan Rus, 338