(^590) SUBJECT INDEX
mathematical research, 73
mathematics education, 154
Mathematics Magazine, 188
mathematikoi, 271
Ëßáß/iematisc/ie Annalen, 88, 98
Matlab, 154
Mato Grosso, 113
matrix, 405, 413, 451
transition, 524
maximum-likelihood, 524
Maxwell's demon, 526
Maya, 40, 69, 80, 197
McGill University, 71
mean and extreme ratio, 297, 358
mean proportional, 312
measure, 546
Borel, 551
measure of curvature, 377
measure zero, 505
measurement, 3
Mecanique caleste, 66, 86
Mecca, 54
Medinet Habu, 122
Melencolia, 214
Memorandum for Friends, 180
Menelaus' theorem, 362, 393
Mengenlehre, 392
Meno, 201
Meroe, 326
Mersenne prime, 167
Merton College, 331
Merton Rule, 331
Meru Prastara (Pascal's triangle), 213
Mesoamerica, 197
Mesopotamia, 12, 13, 21, 41, 145, 197, 271,
407, 409, 414
metalanguage, 552, 555
Method, 250, 301-304
method of exhaustion, 290, 302, 465-467,
470
method of infinite descent, 187, 189, 218
metric space, 392, 507
metric, p-adic, 558
Metrica, 303, 320
Mexico, 37
microgram, 533
Miletus, 42, 270
Ming Dynasty, 22, 28
minimal polynomial, 434
minimal surface, 376, 480
minute, 114
Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio,
62, 147
Mobius band, 369, 388
Mobius transformation, 365, 369, 455
modus ponens, 544
Mogul Empire, 22
Mohenjo Daro, 21
Mona Lisa, 4
monads, 271
monasteries, 58
Mongol Empire, 28
Mongols, 28, 58
Monster, 458
Montreal, 71
de Morgan's laws, 538
Moscow, 551
Moscow Mathematical Society, 73
Moscow Museum of Fine Arts, 34
Moscow Papyrus, 238-240, 244, 248
motion, 334
Mozambique, 325
mti, 405
multilinear algebra, 380
multiplication, 146-147
Egyptian, 130
multivalued function, 387, 494
Mumbai (Bombay), 26
music, 4
Muslim algebra, 40
Muslim calendar, 124
Muslim mathematics, 41
mutual-subtraction algorithm, 184, 250
myriad, 114, 120
Naples, 86
National Council of Teachers of Mathemat-
ics, 63
National Medal of Science, 69
National Physical Laboratory, 71
National Science Foundation, 105
National University of Mexico, 69
Nautical Almanac Office, 67, 68
Naval Observatory, 68
Navigator, 66
negative number, 135, 187, 197, 434
square root of, 62
Nephthys, 123
Neptune, 86
von Neumann algebra, 71
Neumann Prize, 72
neusis, 281, 313, 425
New South Wales, 70
New Testament, 43
New York Historical Society, 34
New York Mathematical Society, 73
New York University, 69, 78
Newnham College, 93
Nicomachean Ethics, 179
Nile, 34, 128
annual flood, 123
Nine Symposium Books, 272
Noetherian ring, 454
non-Euclidean geometry, 296, 378
nonagonal number, 183
nonstandard analysis, 470
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