"As our survey indicates, the Hindus were interested in and contributed to the arithmetical and computational activiti…"

"While the mathematicians were still looking askance at the Greek gift of the irrational number, the Hindus of India w…"

"The Hindus saw clearly that if the arithmetic operations... were properly defined for negative numbers, these numbers…"

"The famous sixteenth-century algebraist Jerome Cardan called negative roots fictitious, and the founder of modern sym…"

"The unnaturalness of mathematical symbolism is attested to by history. The algebra of the Egyptians, the Babylonians,…"

"The chief innovator of symbolism in algebra was François Viète... an amateur in the sense that his professional life …"

"The historical associations of the word algebra almost substantiate the sordid character of the subject. The word com…"

"Historically, it was Euclidean geometry that, developed to a large extent as a votive offering to the God of Reason, …"

"The use of canon raised numerous questions concerning the paths of projectiles. ...One might determine... what type o…"

"Henri Poincaré thought the theory of infinite sets a grave malady and pathologic. "Later generations," he said in 190…"