Date: May 18, 1995 9:14 PM Author: Chih-Han sah Subject: Re: order of operations, history
There is a small, probably not very accessible, pamphlet explaining
the conventions that more or less stablized during the "new math" era:
Karl Menger. The basic concepts of mathematics; a companion
to current textbooks on algebra and analytic geometry,
Chicago, The Bookstore, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1957.
Han Sah, firstname.lastname@example.org