Enlightening Symbols by Mazur Joseph

Author:Mazur, Joseph
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

But, then, why did Bombelli give us the following long list of redundant products of dignità?

It looks as if figure 14.2 represents a doodling account of sheep to put modern readers to sleep. The hard truth is that we tend to look at everything from the point of view of what we already know. We know that xnxm = xn+m, because by definition xn is nothing more than the product of n copies of x, and, therefore, all we have to do is count copies of x to convince ourselves that we could go on forever with any positive integer values of n and m. Such a general notion, however, would have been strangely foreign to readers in Bombelli’s world.

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