Timeline for Origins of Mathematical Symbols/Names
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| Apr 15, 2010 at 14:23 | comment | added | François G. Dorais | @UG: Maybe "We will find it useful to write..."? | |
| Apr 15, 2010 at 8:15 | comment | added | Qfwfq | Also, "erit" is the future of "to be". And the expression "utile erit scribit" doesn't look very correct to me. Perhaps it was "Utile erit scribere..."? | |
| Apr 15, 2010 at 8:12 | comment | added | Qfwfq | "Omnis, -e" is just the corresponding adjective. | |
| Apr 15, 2010 at 8:09 | comment | added | Qfwfq | In Latin, "pro" is an adverb which means "in favour of", but also "before", "in front of"; and "omnia" is a neutral plural which means "all the things". I don't know whether the word "omnia", in the 17th century Latin, used to denote sums/integrals or not. | |
| Apr 13, 2010 at 0:24 | comment | added | François G. Dorais | IIRC, omnia also means total. | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 17:09 | history | edited | Harald Hanche-Olsen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Omni means all.
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| Dec 9, 2009 at 16:28 | comment | added | Cory Knapp | I'm assuming omnia (literally all, I think) is used to mean something along the lines of "sum". | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 15:47 | comment | added | liuyao | It's meant to be Greek to Latin: $\Sigma\to\int$ $\Delta\to d$ | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 15:07 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | I guess integrating is stretching the notion of sum :) | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 14:14 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | Also, I think the $\int$ symbol is supposed to be an elongated "S", which is supposed to stand for "summa"(?) in Latin(?), meaning "sum". | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 14:03 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | What is "omnia"? | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 13:10 | history | answered | Harald Hanche-Olsen | CC BY-SA 2.5 |