Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Author: Anthony Lo Bello
Title: Origins of mathematical words: a comprehensive dictionary of Latin, Greek, and Arabic roots
Additional book information: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2013, xviii+350 pp., ISBN 978-1-4214-1098-2, US $49.95

Author: Joseph Mazur
Title: Enlightening symbols: a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers
Additional book information: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2014, xxiv+285 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-15463-3, US $29.95

Robyn Arianrhod, Enlightening symbols: a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers [book review of MR3183982], Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (2015), no. 2, 148–151. MR 3243610

F. Cajori, A History of Mathematical Notations, Volume 1: Notations in elementary mathematics, Volume 2: Notations mainly in higher mathematics, Open Court, Chicago, 1929.

G. Cardano, Ars magna. 1968 translation The great art or the rules of algebra by T. Richard Witmer, with a foreword by Oystein Ore., The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA–London, 1545.

T. Dantzig, Number, the Language of Science, Pi Press, New York. Reprint of the 1954 edition, edited by Joseph Mazur, 2005.

Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall, Taming the unknown, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2014. A history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century. MR 3237138, DOI 10.1515/9781400850525

Steven Schwartzman, The words of mathematics, MAA Spectrum, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1994. An etymological dictionary of mathematical terms used in English. MR 1270906

• Robyn Arianrhod, Enlightening symbols: a short history of mathematical notation and its hidden powers, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 62 (2015), no. 2, 148–151. MR 3243610
• F. Cajori, A History of Mathematical Notations, Volume 1: Notations in elementary mathematics, Volume 2: Notations mainly in higher mathematics, Open Court, Chicago, 1929.
• G. Cardano, Ars magna. 1968 translation The great art or the rules of algebra by T. Richard Witmer, with a foreword by Oystein Ore., The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA–London, 1545.
• T. Dantzig, Number, the Language of Science, Pi Press, New York. Reprint of the 1954 edition, edited by Joseph Mazur, 2005.
• Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall, Taming the unknown. A history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2014. MR 3237138, DOI 10.1515/9781400850525
• Steven Schwartzman, The words of mathematics. An etymological dictionary of mathematical terms used in English, MAA Spectrum, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1994. MR 1270906 (95e:00013)