Did Hypatia Know about Negative Numbers?
History and Overview
2012-08-17 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
In this Letter we comment on one particular aspect of Hypatia's enigmatic biography by translating into English a short poem that appeared in a recent review of the third revised Polish edition of Maria Dzielska's book about Hypatia. It poses a simple and specifc question: did Hypatia know about the negative numbers?
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@article{arxiv.1208.3274,
title = {Did Hypatia Know about Negative Numbers?},
author = {Marek Abramowicz and Anna Cetera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.3274},
year = {2012}
}
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4 pages