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Repo to track the evolution of notation in arts and sciences
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-couple-guys-built-most-ambitious-alien-outreach-project-ever-180960473/
Pawel seems to be bullish on Categorical diagrams: See his blog (since 2015): https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/ Also, his papers have lots of string diagrams: https://www.ioc.ee/~pawel/papers/ice09.pdf
https://www.unco.edu/nhs/mathematical-sciences/faculty/miller/pdf/thesis.pdf
Found out this curious ∓ symbol in Acta Eruditorum. Was the interpretation of this symbol same as it has in modern times?  Also, pretty interesting is the idea...
Is there a drastically different calculus notation devised by anyone?
Think Florian Cajori details these evolutions. Differential went from ω to l to y/d until he finally settled on dy. Cajori and Mazur (Enlightening Symbols) has written about this. Integral...
Leibniz Bibliothek: https://www.gwlb.de/ Tweet with screenshot: https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1189181245210710017