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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... known and obscure, some of whom made original and 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 ...
... known and obscure, some of whom made original and 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 ...
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... known as number theory (Commercium epistolicum, 1658).10 During the 1650s he enjoyed other fruitful collaborations with Brouncker and also began a lifelong mathematical friendship with John Pell. During the 1660s Wallis's output slowed ...
... known as number theory (Commercium epistolicum, 1658).10 During the 1650s he enjoyed other fruitful collaborations with Brouncker and also began a lifelong mathematical friendship with John Pell. During the 1660s Wallis's output slowed ...
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... known French mathematicians Francis Dulaurens14 and Vincent Leotaud.15 Against such behaviour must be set Wallis's generosity and loyalty to many English mathematicians both well-known and obscure, for Wallis defended his friends as ...
... known French mathematicians Francis Dulaurens14 and Vincent Leotaud.15 Against such behaviour must be set Wallis's generosity and loyalty to many English mathematicians both well-known and obscure, for Wallis defended his friends as ...
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... known as the Cossick Art, until by the sixteenth century it was known in every country in western Europe. Even England produced a single cossist writer, Robert Recorde (c. 1510–58), whose Whetstone of witte was published in 1557. In ...
... known as the Cossick Art, until by the sixteenth century it was known in every country in western Europe. Even England produced a single cossist writer, Robert Recorde (c. 1510–58), whose Whetstone of witte was published in 1557. In ...
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... known through Torricelli's Opera geometrica of 1644, and in 1646 Francis van Schooten published the first complete edition of the work of Viète, followed by a Latin translation of Descartes' La géométrie in 1649. From the 1650s onwards ...
... known through Torricelli's Opera geometrica of 1644, and in 1646 Francis van Schooten published the first complete edition of the work of Viète, followed by a Latin translation of Descartes' La géométrie in 1649. From the 1650s onwards ...
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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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