Re: [HM] the importance of notation

Luigi Borzacchini (gibi@pascal.dm.uniba.it)
Tue, 11 May 1999 09:12:03 +0200

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> Which were, in your opinion, the notations that have permitted
> the greatest advances in mathematics?
>

Surely zero and the positional notation.
In addition the sign of = in the equations ("is" in Diophantus) and the
differential "d" in Leibniz.

Best regards
Luigi Borzacchini

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