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Author(s):	Stephen Webb

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	3319713493
Pages:	254	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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From the ampersat and amerpsand, via smileys and runes to the ubiquitous presence of mathematical and other symbols in sciences and technology: both old and modern documents abound with many familiar as well as lesser known characters, symbols and other glyphs.
Yet, who would be readily able to answer any question like: who chose  to represent the ratio of a circles diameter to its circumference? or whats the reasoning behind having a  key on my computer keyboard?  This book is precisely for those who have always asked themselves this sort of questions.
So, here are the stories behind one hundred glyphs, the book being evenly divided into five parts, with each featuring 20 symbols. Part 1, called , looks at some of the glyphs we use in writing. Part 2, called , discusses some glyphs used in politics, religion, and other areas of everyday life. Some of these symbols are common  others are used only rarely. Some are modern inventions  others, which seem contemporary, can be traced back many hundreds of years. Part 3, called , explores some of the symbols people have developed for use in describing the heavens. These are some of the most visually striking glyphs in the book, and many of them date back to ancient times. Nevertheless their use  at least in professional arenas  is diminishing. Part 4, called , examines some symbols used in various branches of science. A number of these symbols are employed routinely by professional scientists and are also familiar to the general public  others are no longer applied in a serious fashion by  but the reader might still meet them, from time to time, in older works. The final part of the book, , looks at some of the characters used in mathematics, the history of which one can easily appreciate with only a basic knowledge of mathematics.
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