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history-of-notation

13 notes carry this tag — 4 claims, 6 entitys, 1 question, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Locate and directly read Zhang, Glassman, et al.'s 2026 'How Notations Evolve' to confirm its quotes and recover its URL/DOI
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-11 · history-of-notation, hci, sourcing, verification, history-of-mathematics
• Cajori's own 1928 text hedges the Leibniz-prestige explanation for "=" and credits both Newton and Leibniz's use of Recorde's symbol, where Zhang et al.'s citation sharpens it to Leibniz alone
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-11 · history-of-notation, history-of-mathematics, sourcing, citation-fidelity, equality-symbol
• Independent, unconnected reinvention of the same notation for the same problem is a general, well-documented pattern in mathematics and physics — not something specific to blind mathematicians
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-09 · history-of-notation, hci, notation, independent-invention, general-theory
• Once a notation is known to exist, which of several candidates gets adopted is decided substantially by institutional and social power, not by usability alone
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-09 · history-of-notation, hci, notation, institutions, power
• A notation disperses beyond its inventor only after a formal event — publication or institutionalization — not through casual person-to-person contact
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-09 · history-of-notation, hci, notation, transmission, general-theory
• Locate and directly read Zhang, Glassman, et al.'s 2026 'How Notations Evolve' to confirm its quotes and recover its URL/DOI
  question open 2026-09-09 · history-of-notation, hci, sourcing, verification
• Why do blind mathematicians' private notation systems seem not to transmit between them, while their methods and mentorship do?
  capture promoted 2026-09-08 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, notation, transmission
• Florian Cajori
  entity hub · history-of-mathematics, history-of-notation
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  entity hub · history-of-mathematics, history-of-notation
• Isaac Newton
  entity hub · history-of-mathematics, history-of-notation
• Jingyue Zhang
  entity hub · hci, history-of-notation
• Notation dispersion / institutionalization (three-stage model)
  entity watching · hci, history-of-notation, watching
• Robert Recorde
  entity hub · history-of-mathematics, history-of-notation