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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... important contributions to the development of algebra. In concentrating on English advances Wallis was telling a story that had not been told before and has hardly been addressed since.2 He was writing from first-hand experience, about ...
... important contributions to the development of algebra. In concentrating on English advances Wallis was telling a story that had not been told before and has hardly been addressed since.2 He was writing from first-hand experience, about ...
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... 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 and such letters continued 2 A LARGE ...
... 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 and such letters continued 2 A LARGE ...
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... importance of recording both the past and the present, Wallis would have been one of the first to recognize the value of setting down what he knew for the benefit of his contemporaries and posterity.17. English. mathematics. before. 1649.
... importance of recording both the past and the present, Wallis would have been one of the first to recognize the value of setting down what he knew for the benefit of his contemporaries and posterity.17. English. mathematics. before. 1649.
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... important new directions, quite different from those followed by Fermat or Descartes, and although Harriot himself never published any of his mathematics his papers circulated privately and some of his algebra was published posthumously ...
... important new directions, quite different from those followed by Fermat or Descartes, and although Harriot himself never published any of his mathematics his papers circulated privately and some of his algebra was published posthumously ...
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... important volumes of medieval manuscripts. All the seventeenth-century Savilian professors, including eventually Wallis himself, added generously to the Savile Library, making it the best collection in England, or perhaps anywhere, of ...
... important volumes of medieval manuscripts. All the seventeenth-century Savilian professors, including eventually Wallis himself, added generously to the Savile Library, making it the best collection in England, or perhaps anywhere, of ...
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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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