The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

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SUBJECT INDEX 589

Kingdom of Wei, 31
knitting, 9
Kokon Sampd-ki, 53, 418
Konigsberg, 60, 189, 483
bridges of, 9, 386
Korea, 27, 32, 50, 214
Kuba, 9
kuttaka, 175-177, 184, 198, 420
L'invention nouvelle en I'algebre, 437
La recherche, 71
Lady's and Gentleman's Diary, 216
Lambert quadrilateral, 333
Laplace transform, 71
Laplace's equation, 498
Laplace—Beltrami operator, 385
Latin square, 210, 216
latitude, 325
lotus rectum, 306, 313
Laurent series, 494
law of cosines, 332
law of large numbers, 513, 516, 523
law of sines, 331
Laws, 45
Laws of Thought, 540
Le progres de Vest, 93
league, 114
least common multiple, 169
least squares, 64, 192, 521
leather roll, 34
Lebesgue integral, 503
Legons sur le calcul des fonctions, 490
Legons sur les fonctions discontinues, 506
Lectiones geometricae, 467
legacy problems, 423-425, 434
legislated value of ð, 236
Leipzig, 60
lemniscate, 450, 491, 492
length, 3, 7, 12, 30, 503
Let's Make a Deal, 16
lever, Archimedes on, 301
Leyden,352
li, 246
Liber abaci, 181, 210, 428, 430
Liber de ludo, 513
Liber quadratorum, 181, 211, 428
Libya, 81
Lie algebra, 455-456
Lie bracket, 456
Lie group, 455-456
Life of Pythagoras, 271
lightning, 13
Lilavati, 25, 211
line, 233, 271, 284
line coordinates, 370
line graph, 87
linear algebra, 103
Lisieux, 59
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 80, 270


Loci, 296
locus, 323, 352
four-line, 306-310, 314
three-line, 306, 314
two-line, 314
logarithm, 62, 147-149, 158, 472, 476, 517
logic, 14, 67
three-valued, 556
The Logic of Chance, 542
logicism, 553
logistike, 412
London, 149, 268, 529
London Mathematical Society, 73
Long Count, 125
longitude, 325
lottery, 18
Louvre, 140, 401
Lower Saxony, 376
lunar calendar, 122
lunes, 275
quadrature, 312
lunisolar calendar, 122, 157
Luo-shu, 172
Lyceum, 269, 293
Maclaurin series, 476
Madagascar, 10
Madrid Codex, 37
magic square, 172, 210
Mahler Lectureship, 72
Mainardi-Codazzi equations, 384
Malagasy, 10, 11, 15
Manchester University, 71
Manchu (Ching) Dynasty, 28, 33
Manchus, 28
manifold, 382, 546
flat, 382
Maoris, 70
map, 4, 325
Maple, 154
mapping, conformal, 376, 380
Maragheh, 58
Markov chain, 523
Marxism, 29
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 69
Matematicheskii Sbomik, 73
Mathematica, 154, 250
Mathematical Analysis of Logic, 539
Mathematical Association of America, 63,
105, 107
Mathematical Correspondent, 63
mathematical expectation, 514, 519, 523
mathematical journals
American, 73
Canadian, 73
French, 73
German, 73
Japanese, 53
Swedish, 73
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