Math and Number Symbolism

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Chinese Numbers - about.com
Arabic numerals are used in mathematics in China. The Chinese numbers are mainly used in writings. The numbers are often combined with other Chinese characters to form words.
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Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus
Derivative. The symbols dx, dy, and dx/dy were introduced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) in a manuscript of November 11, 1675.
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From Counting to Writing
Abstract numbers are the product of a long cultural evolution. They also apparently played a crucial role in the development of writing in the Middle East.
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Greek Number Systems
There were no single Greek national standards in the first millennium BC. Since the various island states prided themselves on their independence. This meant that they each had their own currency, weights and measures etc.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Greek_numbers.html

History of Mathematical Symbols - By Douglas Weaver
Many plain-language statements of mathematical expressions would fill several pages, while to express them in mathematical notation might take as little as one line. One of the ways to achieve this remarkable compression is to use symbols to stand for statements.
www.roma.unisa.edu.au/07305/symbols.htm

LaTeX Math Symbols
Greek Letters, Binary Operation Symbols, Relation Symbols, Punctuation Symbols, Arrow Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols, Variable-sized Symbols, Log-like Symbols, Delimiters, Large Delimiters, Math mode accents, Some other constructions.
www.fi.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/latex1.html

Math Symbols in HTML
How to place various mathematical characters into HTML documents.
www.barzilai.org/math_sym.htm

Mesopotamian Mathematics
The origins of mathematics in Mesopotamia from the earliest tokens, through the development of Sumerian mathematics to the grand flowering in the Old Babylonian period, and on into the later periods of Mesopotamian history.
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The Numbers
In the history of mysticism, numbers have long been held as sacred. There is a sense that they exist "a priori" in a Kantian sense, i.e., that they exist whether or not there are any humans or other sentient creatures around to count them.
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Numbers in Various Writing Systems
Chinese, Japanese, Cherokee, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Thai, Burmese, Arabic, Aramaic, Greek, Russian, Verdurian, Fali, Chinantec, Korean, ASL.
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Set Theoretic Notation
Sets of integers, rationals, reals and complex numbers denoted by their respective symbols.
www.math.sunysb.edu/~irwin/mat310S00notes/node1.html
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Visual Mathematics
e-journal of ISIS-Symmetry.
www.mi.sanu.ac.yu/vismath/

 

Number Symbolism

Symbolism of the Number 6 6 6   

Four Symbolism
Four has long been a number of completion, stability and predictability, as well as the representation of all earthly things. In number symbolism, the logic of the number four follows from that of the previous three.
www.samuel-beckett.net/Penelope/four_symbolism.html

Numbers: Symbolism and Properties
A synthesis, not exhaustive, of the numerical symbols met most frequently in religious traditions, sacred texts, the arithmosophy, the esotericism or others.
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Number Symbolism
Elementary Number Symbolism, Numero Uno, Two and Duality, Famous Trios, Earthly Fours, Number Symbolism in the Old Testament, Astrological Numbers, Celestial Sevens, Ten Digits, Twelve and the Zodiac, Fatal Forties.
www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit4/unit4.html
Number Symbolism in the Middle Ages   

Number Symbolism
Meanings of Numbers in the Buddhist tradition.
www.khandro.net/about_numbers.htm

Symbolism and Spiritual Significance of the Number Three
In the first three numbers, all of the others are synthesized. From the union of oneness and duality (which is its reflection), that is, from triad, proceed all of the other numbers, and from this primordial triangle all figures derive.
www.greatdreams.com/three/three.htm

 

Symbolism of Prime Numbers

Symbolic Meaning of Thirteen
If twelve represents perfect government, then thirteen is the addition of something that is less than perfect to it.
www.vic.australis.com.au/hazz/number013.html

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