Robert Recorde, The designer of the equals sign, introduced plus and minus to Britain in 1557 in The Whetstone of Witte:[14] "There be other twee signes in often use ofwel which the first is made thus + and betokeneth more: the other is thus made − and betokeneth lesse." Para https://www.openlearning.com/u/mccallcohen-sx1kjn/about/