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History of Mathematics

March 17th, 2010

HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS I INTRODUCTION Mathematics, study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. For example, the symbol for 1 was written five times to represent the number 5, the symbol for 10 was written six times to represent the number 60, and the symbol for 100 was written three times to represent the number 300. » Read more: History of Mathematics