Origins of Mathematical Words: A Comprehensive Dictionary of Latin, Greek, and Arabic Roots

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346 Bibliography The presentation of the bibliography provides the opportunity for me to condemn the practice of referring to items in bibliographies by the notation [B-G 10], [Cap 03], [Chev 58], [Fabre 08], etc., that is to say, by the often comical abbreviation of the author’s name followed by the last two digits of the year of publication. It is deplorable that such an illiterate system is becoming common enough to require reprobation. When it is necessary to make frequent references to items in a bibliography, no one has yet improved upon the tried and true method of numbering the entries consecutively in accordance with alphabetical order and then referring to them by author or entry number followed by page number. Also eccentric is the substitution of the title References for Bibliography. Alford, Henry, A Plea for the Queen’s English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling, tenth thousand, Alexander Strahan, publisher, London and New York, 1866. Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges founded on Comparative Grammar, edited by J. B. Greenough, A. A. Howard, G. L. Kittredge, Benj. L. D’Ooge, Ginn and Company, 1916. Brown, Francis, Driver, S. R., and Briggs, Charles A., A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic, Based on the Lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius as Translated by Edward Robinson, Edited with constant reference to the Thesaurus of Gesenius as completed by E. Rödiger, and with authorized use of the latest German editions of Gesenius’s Handwörterbuch über das Alte 347 Testament by Francis Brown with the co-operation of S. R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1968. Cajori, Florian, A History of Mathematical Notations, two volumes in one, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1993. Calinger, Ronald (editor), Classics of Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1995. Cassell’s New Latin Dictionary, revised by D. P. Simpson, M.A., Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1959. Crystal, David, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge University Press, 1995. Egger, Karl, Lexicon Nominum Virorum et Mulierum, second edition, Editrice Studium, Rome, 1963. Fowler, H. W., A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, second edition revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1965. Freytag, George William, Georgii Wilhelmi Freytagii Lexicon ArabicoLatinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum arabum operibus, adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum, accedit index vocum latinarum locupletissimus, four volumes, Halis Saxonum (Halle), apud C. A. Schwetschke et filium, 1830. Goodwin, William W., A Greek Grammar, Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1968. Hale, William Gardner, and Buck, Carl Darling, A Latin Grammar, Ginn & Company, Publishers, The Athenaeum Press, Boston and London, 1903. 348 Haywood, J. A., and Nahmad, H. M., A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language, revised edition, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965. James, Glenn, and James, Robert C. (editors), Mathematics Dictionary, Students edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1964. Johnson, Samuel, A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which The Words are deduced from their Originals, And Illustrated in their Different Significations By Examples from the Best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, A History of the Language, And An English Grammar, Printed by W. Strahan, for J. & P. Knapton et al., two volumes, London, 1755. Knopp, Konrad, Theory of Functions, two parts, translated by Frederick Bagemiehl, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1945. Lane, Edward William, An Arabic-English Lexicon, in eight parts, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, Lebanon, 1980. This is a photographic reproduction of the 1863 edition published in London by Williams and Norgate. Lawrence, J. Dennis, A Catalogue of Special Plane Curves, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1972. Lewis, Charlton T., and Short, Charles, A Latin Dictionary founded on Andrews’ edition of Freund’s Latin Dictionary, revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Lewis, L. W. P., and Styler, L. M., Foundations for Greek Prose Composition, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., London, 1968. Liddell, Henry George, and Scott, Robert, A Greek-English Lexicon, Revised and Augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the Assistance of Roderick McKenzie, with a Supplement edited by E. A. Barber 349 with the Assistance of P. Mass, M. Scheller, and M. L. West, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1968. Liddell, Henry George, and Scott, Robert, A Lexicon Abridged...