In the syncopated stage of mathematical notation, quantities and common algebraic operations began to be represented by symbolic abbreviations.
Notes on verification
Directly corroborated by Wikipedia, cut-the-knot.org, an arXiv history-of-algebra paper, and a peer-reviewed journal article, all consistent on the rhetorical-syncopated-symbolic framework. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Timeline of mathematics (wikipedia)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2000.tb17262.x (corroboration)
- https://www.cut-the-knot.org/language/symb.shtml (corroboration)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.11704 (corroboration)