A target date of September 2005 has been set for the release of STIX Fonts, a free set of special mainly mathematical characters that are used in scientific, technical, and medical publishing. The ...

THE work before us constitutes an important contribution to the history of mathematics. The development of mathematical notation is a fascinating subject in itself; but, the literature being so ...

One of the interesting things about the history of mathematical notation is its regional variation over the centuries. There was one kind of notation in Italy, another in Germany, the U.K. and France.

This section introduces the mathematical notation used throughout this chapter to describe the mixed linear model. You should be familiar with basic matrix algebra (refer to Searle 1982). A more ...

WHILE the small edition of Thomson and Tait's “Natural Philosophy” professed to supply the essential details of this reasoning, devoid of mathematical notation, the present treatise appears to ...