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89 INDEX ABACUS, 16 Abel, 73 Abscissa, 41 Abstractness of mathematics, 17 Acceleration, 58, 64, 70, 72, 75 Achilles and the tortoise, 51 Addition, 15, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 38 Ahmes, 14, 15, 16, 19, 27 Algebra, 15, 16, 20, 25, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 38, 74, 75, 86 Alkarismi, 29 Ambiguous denotation, 27, 36, 68 Analogy, 10, 31, 32, 34, 35, 39, 47, 80, 82 Analysis, 7, 49, 76 Analytical geometry, 21, 89, 49, 62, 53, 79,86 geometrical, 19, 21, 25, 27 Anticipation of facts in thought, 12, 54, 82 Any, notion of, 15, 33, 48, 69, 85, 86 Apollonius, 17 Arabs, 16, 22, 23, 29 Archimedes, 17, 19, 31, 51, 69 Archytas, 17, 18, 19 Areas, 50, 51, 52, 53, 59, 61, 65, 67, 76 Aristotelians, 25, 86 Aristotle, 7, 64 Arithmetic, 20, 29,!33 Assyrians, 10 Astronomy, 6, 7, 17, 72 Axes, 39, 41 BALL, W. W. R., 89 Barrow, 66 Berkeley, 70 Bernoulli, James, 72 John, 49, 72 Boethius, 23 Boole, 24 Business methods of science, 11-12 CAUCHY, 73, 74 Cavalieri, 52, 53 Chinese, 14, 29 Clairaut, 72 Classification, 10, 11 Cobb, H. E.,89 Common sense, 88 Communication of knowledge, 11 Compensation of errors, 69
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