The letter x used in math problems has a fascinating history tracing back to arabic origins. Its adoption reflects a unique ...
As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...
HISTORIANS of mathematics attribute the first use of the cross x as a symbol for multiplication to William Oughtred (“Clavis Mathematicae”, London, 1631). See W. W. R. Ball's “Short Account of the ...
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