MATH WORDS, AND SOME OTHER WORDS OF INTEREST

MATH WORDS,
AND SOME OTHER WORDS,
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A

Abundant Numbers

Achilles and The Tortoise

Ada, Computer Language

Affine Geometry

Agnesi's Witch curve

Alabama Paradox - voting

Algebraic Numbers

"All Models are Wrong" quote

Altitude of triangle, Properties

Amicable Numbers or Pairs

Angle Bisectors in a Triangle

Angstrom (unit of length)

Annus Mirabilis - Newton's Miracle Year

Anode - creation of the term

Apollonius Gasket

Apollonius Point

Apollonius Problem

Approval Voting

Archimedes Square Dissection Puzzle

Arc Sine or Sin^-1

Argand Diagrams

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

Astronomical Unit / AU

Aubel's Theorem

B

Babylonian Square Root Method

Bacon, Francis; stained glass at Wren Library, Cambridge

Bakhshali Manuscript

Barrow, Isaac; stained glass at Trinity Chapel, Cambridge

Beast, Number of (666)

Bell's Numbers or Bell Numbers

Bernoulli's Golden Theorem

Bernoulli Numbers

Bertrand's Postulate (a prime between n and 2n)

bi-gon (two sided polygon?)

Bimedian of Quadrilateral

Binomial Coefficients

Birthday Problem, notes on origin

Bisectors (ANGLE) in a Triangle

Blackboard, History of

Additional notes on History of Blackboards and slates

Bounds and Butts (land measure)

Borrow (in Subtraction)

Bottle Imp Paradox

Bowditch Curves

Braces {} as Grouping Symbols

Brachystochrone

Brackets as Grouping Symbols

"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

C

C, symbol for Radians

Calculate / Calculus

Camera / Camera obscura

Carmichael Numbers

Carnot's Theorem

Carroll's Logic Diagrams (by Lewis Carroll)

Carry (arithmetic)

Casting out nines

Casting out elevens

Catalan Numbers

Cathode - creation of the term

Cauchy distribution

Ceiling Function,

Centroid or Center of Gravity

Cesaro-Stolz Theorem

Chain or Gunter's Chain

Check methods for arithmetic

Chebyshev's theorem.(a prime between n and 2n)

Chie-no-ita, Chinese puzzle

Chinese Checkers

Chinese Postman's Problem

Chinese Square Root Method

Circulate Numbers

Cis Notation for Complex Numbers

cloff, commercial discount

Collatz's Problem

Commandino's Theorem

Complete Oriented Graph

Complex Fraction

Complex Numbers

Composite & Compound

Condorcet Voting

Confidence Interval

Confounding Variables (statistics)

Congruent Numbers

Conjugate Angles

Contact Triangle

Correlation Coefficient

Cosines, Law of

Cosine Circle (2nd Lemoine)

Coss and Cossists

Cotes, Roger; stained glass at Trinity Chapel, Cambridge

Counting Boards

Counting Numbers

Crafoord Mathematical Prize

Critical Points

Cube roots, by hand

Cuisenaire rods

Curtate Cycloid

Cyclic Quadrangles (Quadrilateral)

Cylindrical Projection, MAP

D

Dart, type of quadrilateral

Des Cartes' Circle Thm

Decimal Fractions

Decimal Point & Decimal Comma

Decimal Repeat Bar

Degrees, Why 360 in a circle?

de Gua's Theorem.

Difference symbol "~"

Digon (two sided polygon?)

Di-graph or Directed Graph

Divide, Symbols for

divisor function, sigma_kn

Dollar Symbol $

Dot as symbol for multiplication

Drawers of Dirichlet

Droz-Farny Theorem

Duplation and Mediation

E

e for 2.71828...

Egyptian Multiplication

Einstein's Biggest Blunder

End of proof symbol,

Early American Math Textbooks

= , Equal Symbol

Euclid's Algorithm at Cut-the-Knot

Euler Path or Circuit

Euler's Planer Graph Theorem (proof) V+F=E+2

Excenter and Excircle

F

Factor & Factorial

Factoring (as in "factoring a quadratic")

Fagnano's Problem

Fair division of Assets and Obligations, Discrete Math Notes

Fermat's Last Theorem

Fermat's Little Theorem

Feuerbach's Circle

Fibonacci's Identity on the sums of two squares

Fibonacci's Sequence

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.

Floor Function,

Forest (planer graph)

Forty, (why there is no "U" in,)

Fourth Proportional

Fractional Exponents

Friendly Numbers

Fundamental Counting Theorem

Furlong (length)

G

Galley method of Division

Gallows Function,

President Garfield's Pythagorean Proof

Gaudi Magic Square

Gelosie Multiplication

Geometry, Royal Road to?

Gergonne Point / Triangle

Gibbous (phases of moon)

Gilbert, Unit of measure

Grad - angle measurement

Grade (of road, etc.)

Graham's Number

Gram, unit of weight(mass)

Graphic Solutions to Quadratic Equations

Grave, early unit for Kilogram

Greater Than Symbol

Greatest Common Factor, Using Euclid's Algorthm at Cut-the-Knot

Greatest Integer Function

Gunter's chain"

Gunter's scale"

H

Halma, board game

Hamilton's Apportionment Method

Hamiltonian Circuits

Hanoi, Tower of Puzzle

Harmonic Sequence

Hawthorne Effect

The Helen of Geometers

Heron's Formula or Hero's Formula

Heron's Problem

Heteroscedastic

Hippocrates Lune

Hippocratic Oath

Histogram /Histograph

History, Notes on Math teaching

Hollerith Cards

Hoppity, old Enlish board game

Horizon / Horizontal

Houses and Utilities Problem (proof)

Hubble (Unit of distance)

Hypocycloid of Four Cusps

Hypocycloid of Three Cusps

I

i for square root of -1

identity and symbol ≡

Imaginary Numbers

Incenter and Incircle

Induction, Inductive Proof

Inequality Symbols

Infinity Symbol

Imperial Gallon

interquartile range

Inverse Sine or Sin^-1

Inverse Square Law

Ion - creation of the term

Irrational Numbers

Isogon - Isogonic Lines, Points, Symmetry

Isomorphic symbol,

Isopleure, Isopleuron

Italian Method of Division

J

Japanese Tangram type puzzle

Jefferson's Apportionment Method

Johnson's Theorem

Josephus Problems

K

Kaprekar Numbers

Kilogram Mass and Force

Kissing Circles Theorem

Knot, (Unit of speed)

Knots and Knot Theory

Kurschak's Theorem

L

Lattice Multiplication

Law of Large Numbers

Law of Tangents

League (measure of distance)

Lemoine Point / Circles

Lens (intersection of two circles)

Less Than Symbol

l'Hospital's Rule

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Lill Circle, A Graphic Solution to Quadratic Equations

Lissajous Figures

ln for natural logarithm

Loculus of Archimedes

Log-line (instrument for nautical speed)

Ludolph's Number

Lune of Hippocrates

Lune of Alhazen

Lurking Variables (statistics)

M

Magnetic Declanation Map (first)

Mathbooks, Early American

Mean Proportional

Measuring Four Gallons using a Five and Three Gallon Jug, some history (Blog)

Medial Triangle

Median (Origin & statistics)

Medians of a Triangle

Mercator Projection, MAP

Merels, the game

Mil or Mill (1/1000)

Miquel's Point & Theorem

Miquel's Pentagon Theorem

Mollweide Equations

Monge's Theorem on common tangents of circles

Monte Carlo Method

Months and their Names

Morley's Theorem

Morris, (Nine Men's-) the game

Mu, , for the average

Multiple Factorial

Multiplication (Ancient/Old methods)