What is a symbol?

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_4MaRDI QIDQ4609481zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Valerie Allen

Publication date 3 April 2018

Published in Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_4

zbMATH Keywords

aestheticsalgebranotationsymbol

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General histories, source books (01A05)

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