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This is a description of the crosswalk from Convergence to Loci Convergence.
I owe a man the following notes: one of $800 due May 16; one of$660 due on July 1; one of $940 due Sept. 29. He wishes to exchange them for two notes of$1200 each and wants one to fall due June 1. When should the other be due?
What number which being increased by 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 of itself, the sum shall be 75?
Knowing the base, b, and the altitude, a, of a triangle. Find the expression for a side of the inscribed square.
A collection of the Kenneth May lectures in the history of mathematics given at meetings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics.
Website containing much information on mathematical symbolism and terminology, as well as portraits of mathematicians from postage stamps.
An argument that the teaching of elementary integration should better reflect its historical development
A brief version of the author's well-known history of mathematics text.
Title page of Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi (The Art of Conjecturing), published posthumously in 1713 by his nephew Nicolaus I Bernoulli. The Ars Conjectandi is famous for Bernoulli's statement of a general rule for summing integral powers as well as for the first statement and proof of the Law of Large Numbers.

A history of the concept of zero from as far back as the Babylonian period, with philosophical excursions into the meaning of "nothing".