The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

594 SUBJECT INDEX

Scythians, 325
secant, 260, 298, 330
second, 114
second category, 506
second law of thermodynamics, 525
Second Punic War, 46, 299
seked, 235
semantics, 537, 554
semicircle, 275, 329
semidifference, 141, 159, 297, 401
semiregular solids, 358
Senkereh tablets, 140
sequence, arithmetic, 193
Seres, 326
series, 254, 463, 468, 469, 474
binomial, 501
Dirichlet, 193
Fourier, 499, 507
geometric, 558
Laurent, 494
Maclaurin, 474, 531
power, 474, 486, 489, 503
Taylor, 472, 496, 501
trigonometric, 477, 489, 502
set
countable, 549
uncountable, 549
set theory, 96, 187
descriptive, 393, 546
Seth, 123
Sevastopol, 87
Seven Years War, 22
sexagesimal system, 116, 121, 143, 144, 197,
270
sexual harassment, 79
Shang Dynasty, 27, 29
Shang numerals, 135
Shanghai, 326
shape, 3
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, 234
Shetland Islands, 325
Shimura-Taniyama conjecture, 171
Shogun, 53
Shogunate Observatory, 73
Shushu Jiyi, 172
Sicily, 59, 285, 299
Siddhanta Siromani, 25
sieve of Eratosthenes, 166
simply connected surface, 387
Simpson's paradox, 530, 533
Sind, 25
sine, 259, 267, 330
Sirius, 122
six-line locus, 323
slide rule, 148-150
circular, 149
slope, 235, 464
of pyramids, 235

Snell's law, 335

Society de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle,

86

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-

matics, 63

software, 146

solar calendar, 122

solid of revolution, 249

solid problem, 280

Song Dynasty, 28

Sopdit, 122

soroban (abacus), 51

Sothic cycle, 123

South Africa, 53

space, 3

Hausdorff, 393

metric, 392

complete, 507

topological, 393

Spain, 4, 33, 43, 54

sphere, 329, 343, 387

area, 267, 301-304, 312

segment, volume, 247

volume, 249, 253, 257, 301-304

spherical mapping, 376

spherical trigonometry, 335

spiral, 281, 301, 353, 469

sporadic group, 458

square, 9

square number, 168

square root, 129, 137, 140, 200, 298, 400,

417, 430

approximation, 141

squaring the circle, 264, 274-275, 290, 449

standard deviation, 87, 529

standard length, 128

statics, 59

Statistical Society, 87

statistics, 14, 515

Steinmetz solid, 250

Stetigkeit una irrationale Zahlen, 204

Sthananga Sutra, 23

Stonehenge, 122

string property, 315

strong extremal, 483

Sturm-Liouville problem, 499, 507

Suan Fa Tong Zong, 32, 33, 51, 52

Suan Jing Shishu, 29

suan pan (abacus), 51

Suan Shu Chimeng, 32, 52, 119

subgroup, 449

subject, 294

subtangent, 464, 476

subtraction, 5

successor, 552

Suda, 81

Sulva Sutras, 175, 257

sum of sines, 467