A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685OUP Oxford, 16 de gen. 2003 - 306 pàgines For historians of mathematics and those interested in the history of science, 'A Discourse Concerning Algebra' provides an new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th century. Including new research, this is the most detailed study to date of early modern English algebra, which builds on work published in 1685 by John Wallis (Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford) on the history of algebra. Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe (especially those of Viéte) and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century. The text emphasises the contribution of Wallis, but substantial reference is also provided to other important mathematicans such as Harriot, Oughtred, Pell and Brouncker. |
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... already changed Wallis's fortunes in more important ways. In the first year of the war he was shown a ciphered letter in the possession of Sir William Waller, then a colonel in the Parliamentary army. Wallis broke the cipher with ease ...
... already changed Wallis's fortunes in more important ways. In the first year of the war he was shown a ciphered letter in the possession of Sir William Waller, then a colonel in the Parliamentary army. Wallis broke the cipher with ease ...
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... already evident in his inaugural lecture and in his Mathesis universalis of 1657 and was to continue throughout his life: he was still actively pursuing historical research not long before he died in 1703 at the age of 86. During the ...
... already evident in his inaugural lecture and in his Mathesis universalis of 1657 and was to continue throughout his life: he was still actively pursuing historical research not long before he died in 1703 at the age of 86. During the ...
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... already discernible in the early years of the seventeenth century. As early as 1600 Harriot had mastered Viète's algebra and had taken it in important new directions, quite different from those followed by Fermat or Descartes, and ...
... already discernible in the early years of the seventeenth century. As early as 1600 Harriot had mastered Viète's algebra and had taken it in important new directions, quite different from those followed by Fermat or Descartes, and ...
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... already written more than he intended. Rather than give too short an account of 'analysis', or algebra, he thought it better to devote a separate volume to the subject, which he proposed to do. Given Wallis's prolific output on other ...
... already written more than he intended. Rather than give too short an account of 'analysis', or algebra, he thought it better to devote a separate volume to the subject, which he proposed to do. Given Wallis's prolific output on other ...
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... already engaged on a major work on algebra of his own, so we may suppose that the book was not begun in earnest until 1673 and that Wallis continued to work on it until he delivered it to Collins in 1677. The dating 1673 to 1677 is ...
... already engaged on a major work on algebra of his own, so we may suppose that the book was not begun in earnest until 1673 and that Wallis continued to work on it until he delivered it to Collins in 1677. The dating 1673 to 1677 is ...
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William Oughtreds Clavis | 55 |
Thomas Harriot and his Treatise on equations | 88 |
uncovering the mathematics of John Pell | 126 |
John Walliss Arithmetica infinitorum | 155 |
the mathematics of William Brouncker | 183 |
8 Many pretty things worth looking into | 208 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliographies | 261 |
Index | 289 |
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A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685 Jacqueline A. Stedall Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685 Jacqueline A. Stedall Previsualització limitada - 2002 |
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