Book:David Nelson/The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics/Fourth Edition

David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics

Published $\text {2008}$, Penguin

ISBN 978-0-141-03023-4.

Subject Matter

• Mathematics

Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Dictionary of Mathematics

Appendix:

Table 1 Derivatives

Table 2 Integrals

Table 3 Reduction formulae

Table 4 Moments of inertia

Table 5 The Greek alphabet

Table 6 Common signs and symbols

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Further Editions

• 1989: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.)
• 2003: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (3rd ed.)

Errata

Eugenio Beltrami

Beltrami, Eugenio (1835-99)

William Brouncker

Brouncker, William, Viscount (1620-85)

Chu Shih-Chieh

Chu Shih-chich

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1793-1856)

Pietro Mengoli

Mengoli, Pietro (1626-82)

Emmy Noether

Noether, Amalie (Emmy) (1883-1935)

William Oughtred

Oughtred, William (1575-1660)

Willebrord van Royen Snell

Snell, Willebrord van Royen (1580-1626)

Alfred Tarski

Tarski, Alfred (1902-85)

Wronskian

It is named after the Polish mathematician Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776-1853).

Primitive of $\sqrt {x^2 - a^2}$

$\ds \int \sqrt {x^2 - a^2} \rd x = \frac 1 2 a^2 \cosh^{-1} \frac x a + \frac 1 2 {x \sqrt {x^2 - a^2} } + C$

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