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Re:Breakthrough electrolyser development: 200 times less iri... by FredPret on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:47AM (#33385061)
Crazy thought: mathematical symbols like +, =, and even variables like x, y, etc are recent-ish innovations.

Before that equations were written out in words!

Re:Breakthrough electrolyser development: 200 times less iri... by HPsquared on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:40PM (#33385657)
That's interesting, are there any famous examples?
Re:Breakthrough electrolyser development: 200 times less iri... by drivers99 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @01:45PM (#33386296)
Re:Breakthrough electrolyser development: 200 times less iri... by cesaref on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:49PM (#33387394)
I'd guess Netwons Principia would be a good example, given it basically became the founding work of a mathematical approach to physics, gravity, newton's laws of motion etc.

The book is written in Latin and contains diagrams and text to describe each lemma and law. Geometric proof seems to feature heavily!

From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Pri...

Re:Breakthrough electrolyser development: 200 times less iri... by jlokier on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:02PM (#33389759)
Fermat's Last Theorem:

Latin: Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos & generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.

Translation: It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

Fermat's Little Theorem (much more useful in practice):

French:Tout nombre premier mesure infailliblement une des puissances − 1 de quelque progression que ce soit, et l'exposant de la dite puissance est sous-multiple du nombre premier donné − 1; et, après qu'on a trouvé la première puissance qui satisfait à la question, toutes celles dont les exposants sont multiples de l'exposant de la première satisfont tout de même à la question.

Translation: Every prime number [p] divides necessarily one of the powers minus one of any [geometric] progression [x, x², x³, ... ] [that is, there exists a such that p divides xª – 1], and the exponent of this power [a] divides the given prime minus one [divides p – 1]. After one has found the first power [a] that satisfies the question, all those whose exponents are multiples of the exponent of the first one satisfy similarly the question [that is, all multiples of the first a have the same property].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_little_theorem