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Translingual
Etymology
Gottfried Leibniz based the symbol on the Latin word summa (“sum”), which he wrote ſumma (with a long s ⟨ſ⟩). This use first appeared publicly in his paper De Geometria, published in Acta Eruditorum of June, 1686,[1] but he had been using it in private manuscripts since at least 1675.[2]
References
- Mathematics and its History, John Stillwell, Springer 1989, p. 110
- Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz, J. M. Child, Open Court Publishing Co., 1920, pp. 73–74, 80.
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