The History of Mathematics

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Incline represented by the elusive letter m (5)
• Disorder where butterflies flap into atmospheric tempests (5)
• Al-Khwarizmi namesake giving step-by-step instructions (9)
• Collection that Cantor went mad trying to bound (3)
• Optimally indivisible, like Amazon or stubborn integers (5)
• Beaded wire counter that predated silicon chips (6)
• Pisa native whose rabbits multiplied in golden ratios (9)
• Coordinate line that allied powers might revolve around (4)
• Speed law or value approached without touching (5)
• Rubber-sheet geometry indifferent to stretching or bending (8)
• Doughnut topology that lets coffee mugs pass as identical twins (5)
• Samos bean-hater who squared legs into hypotenuses (10)
• Radix foundation or dishonorable footing (4)

Down

• Trig ratio that sounds like an admission of wrongdoing (4)
• Blind Swiss mastermind who unified exponential and trigonometric realms (5)
• Grading bending path that departs from straightness (5)
• Total outcome of pooling terms together (3)
• Alexandrian scholar who commented on Diophantus before an untimely demise (7)
• Board whose grains of wheat geometric expansion bankrupts an emperor (5)
• Segment that jumped aboard a curve (3)
• Endless sideways figure-eight that baffled John Wallis (8)
• Continuous accumulator stretching an elongated S (8)
• Algebraic genius whose theorem twinned conservation laws with symmetries (7)
• Radical home for a base number or plant base (4)
• Prince of mathematicians whose bell curved normal distributions (5)

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