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A
Abacus
Abscissa
Absolute Value
Abundant Numbers
Accumulate
Accurate
Achiral
Acre
Acute
Ada, Computer Language
Add
Addend
Adjacent
Aeon
Affine Geometry
Agnesi's Witch curve
Ahmes Papyrus
Alabama Paradox - voting
Alchemy
Aleph-Null
Algebra
Algebraic Numbers
Algorithm
Aliquot Parts
"All Models are Wrong" quote
Altitude
Altitude of triangle, Properties
Amblygon
Amicable Numbers or Pairs
Amplitude
Analemma
Analogy
Angle
Angle Bisectors in a Triangle
Angstrom (unit of length)
Annual
Annulus
Annus Mirabilis - Newton's Miracle Year
Anode - creation of the term
Antares
Antecedent
Anti-Center
Antiparallel
Aphelion
Apoapsis
Apogee
Apollonius Gasket
Apollonius Point
Apollonius Problem
Apothem
Apportionment
Approval Voting
Apse
Apside
Arbelos
Arc
Archimedes Square Dissection Puzzle
Arc Sine or Sin-1
Are
Area
Argand Diagrams
Argument
Arithmetic
Arithmetical Frames; (old teaching devices)
Arithmetic Books, Early American
arithmetic Books, First North American
Arms of a right triangle, blog about the development of the term
Arrive
Asses' Bridge
Associative
Astroid
Astronaut
Astronomical Unit / AU
Asymptote
Atlas
Atom
Aubel's Theorem
Average
Avoirdupois
Axiom
Axis
B
Babylonian Square Root Method
Bacon, Francis; stained glass at Wren Library, Cambridge
Bakhshali Manuscript
Barometer
Barrow, Isaac; stained glass at Trinity Chapel, Cambridge
Barycenter
Baryon
Base
Bayes' Theorem
Bell Curve
Bell's Numbers or Bell Numbers
Benford's Law
Bernoulli's Golden Theorem
Bernoulli Numbers
Bertrand's Postulate (a prime between n and 2n)
The Big Bang
bi-gon (two sided polygon?)
Billion
Bimedian of Quadrilateral
Binary Numbers
Binomial
Binomial Coefficients
Bisect
Bisectors (ANGLE) in a Triangle
Blackboard, History of
Additional notes on History of Blackboards and slates
Bode's Law
Bounds and Butts (land measure)
Borda Voting
Borrow (in Subtraction)
Bottle Imp Paradox
Bowditch Curves
Box Plot
Brachystochrone
"Bracket X", or Bracket Function
Brahmagupta's Formula
Brahmagupta's Identity on the sums of two squares
Brahmagupta's Multiplication method
Butts and Bounds (land measure)
The Bride's Chair
Bridge of Asses
Brocard's Problem
Bruns Constant
Bureau
C
C, symbol for Radians
Caduceus
Calculate / Calculus
Calendar
Camera / Camera obscura
Cardinal
Cardinality
Carat
Cardioid
Caret
Carmichael Numbers
Carnot's Theorem
Carroll's Logic Diagrams (by Lewis Carroll)
Carry (arithmetic)
Casting out nines
Casting out elevens
Catalan Numbers
Catenary
Cathetus
Cathode - creation of the term
Cauchy distribution
Ceiling Function,
Census
Center
Centroid or Center of Gravity
Century
Ceres
Cesaro-Stolz Theorem
Ceva's Theorem
Cevian
Chain or Gunter's Chain
Chain Reaction
Chaos
Check
Check methods for arithmetic
Chebyshev's theorem.(a prime between n and 2n)
Chie-no-ita, Chinese puzzle
Chilihedron
Chinese Checkers
Chinese Postman's Problem
Chinese Square Root Method
Chiral
Chi Square
Choose
Chord
Circle
Circuit
Circulate Numbers
Circumcenter
Circumcircle
Circumference
Circumscribe
Class
cloff, commercial discount
Clue
Coefficient
Collatz's Problem
Collinear
Combinations
Commandino's Theorem
Commutative
Compass
Complementary
Complete Graph
Complete Oriented Graph
Complex Fraction
Complex Numbers
Component
Composite & Compound
Compute
Concurrent
Concyclic
Condorcet Voting
Cone
Confidence Interval
Confounding Variables (statistics)
Congruent
Conic Section
Conic Surface
Conjecture
Conjugate
Conjugate Angles
Consequent
Constant
Contact Triangle
Continuous
Converse
Convex
Coordinates
Corollary
Correct
Correlation
Correlation Coefficient
Cosecant
Cosine
Cosines, Law of
Cosine Circle (2nd Lemoine)
Cosmic Rays
Cosmos
Coss and Cossists
Cotangent
Cotes, Roger; stained glass at Trinity Chapel, Cambridge
Counting Boards
Counting Numbers
Crafoord Mathematical Prize
Cramer's Rule
Crescent
Critical Points
Cube
Cube roots, by hand
Cuisenaire rods
Cumulative
Curator
Curtate Cycloid
Cusp
Cybernetics
Cyclic Quadrangles (Quadrilateral)
Cycloid
Cylinder
Cylindrical Projection, MAP
D
Dart, type of quadrilateral
Data/Datum
Dean
Decade
Des Cartes' Circle Thm
Decimal Fractions
Decimal Point & Decimal Comma
Decimal Repeat Bar
Decrease
Degree
Degrees, Why 360 in a circle?
de Gua's Theorem.
Deltoid
Denominator
Derangement
Derivative
Derive
Determinant
Deviation
Devil's Curve
Diagonal
Diagram
Diameter
Diamond
Dice / Die
Dido's Problem
Difference
Difference symbol "~"
Digit
Digital Root
Digon (two sided polygon?)
Dimension
Di-graph or Directed Graph
Discount
Discriminant
Distance
Divide
Dividend
Divide, Symbols for
Divisor
divisor function, sigmak n
Dodecagon
Dodecahedron
Domain
Dollar
Dollar Symbol $
Dot as symbol for multiplication
Double Dummy
Dozen
Drawers of Dirichlet
Droz-Farny Theorem
Duplation and Mediation
E
e for 2.71828...
East
Edge
Egyptian Multiplication
Einstein's Biggest Blunder
Electricity
Electron
Ellipse
Ellipsis
Ellipsoid
Empty Set
Enantiomorphic
End of proof symbol,
Early American Math Textbooks
Eon
Eocene
Eohippus
Equal
= , Equal Symbol
Equation
Equiangular
Equilateral
Equivalent
Ether
Euclid's Algorithm at Cut-the-Knot
Euler Circuits
Euler Line
Euler Path or Circuit
Euler's Planer Graph Theorem (proof) V+F=E+2
Excenter and Excircle
Explementary
Exponent
Extrapolate
F
Factor & Factorial
Factoring (as in "factoring a quadratic")
Fagnano's Problem
Fair division of Assets and Obligations, Discrete Math Notes
February
Fermat Point
Fermat's Last Theorem
Fermat's Little Theorem
Feuerbach's Circle
Fibonacci's Identity on the sums of two squares
Fibonacci's Sequence
Fields Medal
The Fifteen Puzzle, a blog about that famous little sliding puzzle game that swept the world.... and a link to a FREE download to play.
First
Floor Function,
Focus
Forest (planer graph)
Formula
Forty, (why there is no "U" in,)
Four
Fourth Proportional
Fractal
Fraction
Fractional Exponents
Fraction Bar
Frequency
Friday
Friendly Numbers
Frustum
Function
Fundamental Counting Theorem
Furlong (length)
G
Galaxy
Galley method of Division
Gallon
Gallows Function,
Gamma Function
President Garfield's Pythagorean Proof
Gas
Gaudi Magic Square
Gauging
Gelosie Multiplication
Geoboard
Geocenter
Geometric Mean
Geometry
Geometry, Royal Road to?
Gergonne Point / Triangle
Gibbous (phases of moon)
Gilbert, Unit of measure
Girard's Thm
Gnomen
Googol
Gougu Rule
Grad - angle measurement
Grade (of road, etc.)
Graham's Number
Gram, unit of weight(mass)
Graph
Graph Paper
Graphic Solutions to Quadratic Equations
Graph Theory
Grave, early unit for Kilogram
Greater Than Symbol
Greatest Common Factor, Using Euclid's Algorthm at Cut-the-Knot
Greatest Integer Function
Grebe Point
Gross
Gunter's chain"
Gunter's scale"
H
Half, 1/2
Half-Period
Halma, board game
Halmos symbol,
Hamilton's Apportionment Method
Hamiltonian Circuits
Hanoi, Tower of Puzzle
Harmonic Mean
Harmonic Sequence
Hash symbol, #
Haversine
Hawthorne Effect
Heap Paradox
Hectare
Height
HemiSphere
Hein, Piet
The Helen of Geometers
Helium
Helix
Hermetic Seal
Heron's Formula or Hero's Formula
Heronian Mean
Heron's Problem
Heteroscedastic
Hex, the game
Hexdecimal
Hinge
Hippocrates Lune
Hippocratic Oath
Histogram /Histograph
History, Notes on Math teaching
Hoehn's Thm
Hollerith Cards
Homoscedastic
Hoppity, old Enlish board game
Horizon / Horizontal
Hornbooks
Horsepower
Hour
Houses and Utilities Problem (proof)
Hubble (Unit of distance)
Hundred
Hyperbola
Hyperbole
Hypercube
Hypocycloid of Four Cusps
Hypocycloid of Three Cusps
Hypodermic
Hypotenuse
I
i for square root of -1
identity and symbol ≡
Ides
Idiot
IFF symbol
Imaginary Numbers
Incenter and Incircle
Increase
Increment
Index
Induction, Inductive Proof
Inequality Symbols
Infinitesimul
Infinity
Infinity Symbol
Imperial Gallon
Inscribe
Int Function
Integer
Interpolate
Interval
interquartile range
Inverse Sine or Sin-1
Inverse Square Law
Iodine
Ion - creation of the term
IQR
Irrational Numbers
Iridium
Iris
Ishango Bone
Isogon - Isogonic Lines, Points, Symmetry
Isometry
Isomorphic
Isomorphic symbol,
Isoperimetric
Isopleure, Isopleuron
Isosceles
Italian Method of Division
J
January
Japanese Tangram type puzzle
Jefferson's Apportionment Method
Jerk
Johnson's Theorem
Josephus Problems
Julia Set
K
Kaprekar Numbers
Karat
Kilogram Mass and Force
Klein Bottle
Kissing Circles Theorem
Kite
Knot, (Unit of speed)
Knots and Knot Theory
Kurschak's Theorem
Kurtosis
L
Lame's Numbers
Lattice Multiplication
latus rectum
lb, Pound
Law of Cosines
Law of Large Numbers
Law of Sines
Law of Tangents
League (measure of distance)
Leg
Lemma
Lemniscate
Lemoine Point / Circles
Lens (intersection of two circles)
Leptokurtic
Less Than Symbol
l'Hospital's Rule
Liar's Paradox
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Lill Circle, A Graphic Solution to Quadratic Equations
Limacon
Limit
Line
Lissajous Figures
ln for natural logarithm
Loculus of Archimedes
Locus
Logarithm
Log-line (instrument for nautical speed)
Long Ton
Lotka's Law
Loxodrome
Lozenge
Lucas Sequence
Ludolph's Number
Lune
Lurking Variables (statistics)
M
"m" for Slope
Macron
Magic Squares
Magnetic Declanation Map (first)
Magnitude
Maltitudes
Mantissa
Matrix
Mars
Mathbooks, Early American
Mathematics
Mathot's Point
Maximum
Mean
Mean Proportional
Measure
Measuring Four Gallons using a Five and Three Gallon Jug, some history (Blog)
Medial Triangle
Median (Origin & statistics)
Medians of a Triangle
Menelaus' Thm
Mercator Projection, MAP
Mercury
Merels, the game
Merhkat
Meter
Metric Ton
Mil or Mill (1/1000)
Mile
Million
Minor
Minuend
Minus
Minute
Miquel's Point & Theorem
Miquel's Pentagon Theorem
Mobius Strip
Mode
Modulus
Mollweide Equations
Monge's Theorem on common tangents of circles
Monge's Point
Monomial
Monte Carlo Method
Months and their Names
Morley's Theorem
Morris, (Nine Men's-) the game
Moscow Papyrus
Mu, , for the average
Multiple Factorial
multiplicand
Multiplication (Ancient/Old methods)
multiplier
multiply
Myriad