
Timeline of mathematics - Wikipedia
This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history. It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which …
Indian mathematics - Wikipedia
The decimal number system in use today [3] was first recorded in Indian mathematics. [4] Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number, [5] …
Chinese mathematics - Wikipedia
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art In the Han dynasty, numbers were developed into a place value decimal system and used on a counting board with a set of counting rods called rod calculus, …
List of numerical libraries - Wikipedia
The NAG Library is a collection of mathematical and statistical routines for multiple programming languages (C, C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, Java, Python and C#) and packages (MATLAB, Excel, R, …
Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics - Wikipedia
The mathematical formulations of quantum mechanics are those mathematical formalisms that permit a rigorous description of quantum mechanics. This mathematical formalism uses mainly a part of …
Exponentiation - Wikipedia
In mathematics, exponentiation, denoted bn, is an operation involving two numbers: the base, b, and the exponent or power, n. [1] When n is a positive integer, exponentiation corresponds to repeated …
Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia
Glossary of mathematical symbols A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between …
MATLAB - Wikipedia
Indexing is one-based, [37] which is the usual convention for matrices in mathematics, unlike zero-based indexing commonly used in other programming languages such as C, C++, and Java.