When something goes wrong with your car, a curious-looking icon illuminates on the dashboard. But what those symbols mean isn ...

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This is just one of many untold histories in The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind the Symbols by author and mathematician Raúl Rojas. In it, Rojas explores the complex, and sometimes ...