I started doing seminars on the history of mathematical notation, and I had every student study one symbol and explain its origin. I found that those students who are falling asleep in class ...

Eastaway wanted to train teenagers to be better estimators, “and I thought it would be more memorable to have a symbol,” he ... pantheon of “real” mathematical notation, but that’s ...

the duo sketched out nine symbols, each of which indicates a function not easily describable with existing notation. Cook is applying the signs in a book on the Halting Problem and plans to submit ...

All we’d need to do is come up with simple symbols that can be broken down into tens, hundreds, or parts of a whole, and we can create a new-old system of notation. Via Wolfram Math World.

EVERYONE who has had to correct printers' proofs of mathematical formulæ must be ... time to time suggestions for such simplifications of notation as shall render the composition less liable ...

Created by an interdisciplinary team of more than a dozen faculty and students, MathDeck aims to make math notation interactive ... formula images and hand-drawn symbols. "With such a tool in ...

Work with radicals – mathematical expressions including square roots (symbol:√ ), cube roots ... Understand scientific notation as a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small ...

Too large for mathematical notation ... (For the record, TREE(3) is expressed as 2↑↑1000 in symbols). This notation, which relies on advanced techniques such as transfinite arithmetic ...