Statistically, the most common symbol in mathematics is the equal sign ... “which was to be demonstrated”—there is the Halmos ...

Then there are four lines, each one side of the box ... symbols that can be broken down into tens, hundreds, or parts of a whole, and we can create a new-old system of notation. Via Wolfram Math ...

This dispute is just one of many such little-known events; for example, another debate has been raging for centuries over who invented the symbol for zero, 0. In The Language of Mathematics ...

A new book traces the history of division signs, square roots, pi, exponents, graph axes and other mathematical symbols. (Bigstock) Consider the simple plus sign: +. Most people, Joseph Mazur ...