The Negative Numbers

Calvin C. Clawson

Chapter Chapter 7 in The Mathematical Traveler, 1994, pp 121-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Here we will survey several topics spread over a period of four thousand years. As we have seen, the concept of number became stifled in Greece toward the end of the classical period, actually going backward with respect to fractions. To rescue numbers, we will seek out the development of the zero, negative numbers, and our modern Hindu-Arabic numbering system, all of which contributed to our modern theory of numbers.

Keywords: Number Line; Number System; Sixteenth Century; Negative Number; Unit Fraction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-6014-6_8

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