William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of MathematicsCajori, Florian
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William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
Cajori, Florian
Mathematicians -- Biography; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- History -- 17th century; Oughtred, William, 1575-1660
24, namely,
3..2::72..48. Curious notations are given in Rich. Balam’s Algebra,
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[141]Claudii Ptolemaei . . . . annotationes, Bâle, 1551. This reference
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