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  • ...br />2. The validity of the testimony of early Arabic writers ascribing to India the numerals with zero is shaken, but not destroyed.<br />3. There is not a * My quotations from [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] suggest the motive which induced him to take a stan ...
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  • ...he testimony and have set forth what seem to be the reasonable conclusions from the evidence...<!--p. iv--> .... sets of numerals, and the [[w:Ancient Rome|Roman]] symbols... changed... from century to century.<!--p. 1--> ...
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  • ...ight|thumb| Aryabhata first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy]] ...first in the line of great [[mathematician]]-[[w:Astronomers|astronomers]] from the classical age of [[w:Indian mathematics|Indian mathematics]] and [[w:In ...
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  • ...auss]]. He became a Fellow of the [[w:Royal Society|Royal Society]], and [[India]] now observes his birthday as [[w:National Mathematics Day|National Mathem ...access to other [[works]].''' But he came across an old math [[book]] and from this basic text he was able to extrapolate [[theories]] that had baffled ma ...
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  • ...tractive number, the result is their subtractive difference; if the number from which one subtracts is smaller than the number subtracted, the result is th ...J. Katz, Karen Hunger Parshall, ''Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century'' (2014) p. 160. ...
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  • ...igonometric functions}} began in {{w|Hellenistic mathematics}}, reaching [[India]] as part of {{w|Hellenistic astronomy}}. In [[Indian astronomy]], the stud ...obst Bürgi]]... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...
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  • ...thematicians did not feel so encumbered and have required only consistency from their lists of axioms. ...It remains to be seen whether the initial conditi ...r|Fourier]] in that of trigonometric series, or [[w:Bhāskara II|Bhaskara]] from Lagrange in the region of [[w:Pell's equation|Fermat's equation]]. Professi ...
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  • ...etails/historyofchemist02thoruoft/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater Vol. II.] From 1850 to 1910 (1910).<!--History of Chemistry (book)--> ===Volume 1. From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1909)=== ...
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  • * Now this ratio of the single to the double arises, no doubt, from the [[wiktionary:ternary#Adjective|ternary]] number, since one added to two ...cience of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India'' (1996) p. 234. ...
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