A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685

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A Discourse Concerning Algebra, provides a new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th Century.Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century.
 

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A large discourse concerning algebra
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A treatise of algebra
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How algebra was entertained and cultivated in Europe
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In Arabic it is called aljabrº
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Cardan gives it the name of Ars magna
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Walliss account of early algebra
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1631
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1647 and 1648
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Walliss account of Harriots algebra
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uncovering the mathematics
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An introduction to algebra
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John Walliss
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Praise and criticism
165
The enlargement of the mathematical empire
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the mathematics
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The challenges from Fermat
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1667
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1693 onwards
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Thomas Harriot and his Treatise
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The Treatise on equations
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The contents of the Praxis
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The Corrector and the Summary
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The fate of Harriots material after 1631 III
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Many pretty things worth looking into
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Walliss perspective on history
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Bibliographies
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Secondary sources
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Index
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A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685
Jacqueline A. Stedall
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Jacqueline A. Stedall is a Clifford Norton Student in the History of Science, The Queen's College, Oxford; Member of the Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences, Open University, Oxford.

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TítolA Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685
Online access with purchase: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online).: Mathematics module
AutorJacqueline A. Stedall
Col·laboradorOxford University Press
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EditorOxford University Press, 2002
ISBN0198524951, 9780198524953
Nre. de pàgines294 pàgines
  
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