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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... later Ashford was afflicted by plague, and John was sent by his mother to a tutor in Tenterden about twelve miles away, where he remained until at the age of fourteen he spent a year at Felsted school in Essex. As was usual at the time ...
... later Ashford was afflicted by plague, and John was sent by his mother to a tutor in Tenterden about twelve miles away, where he remained until at the age of fourteen he spent a year at Felsted school in Essex. As was usual at the time ...
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... later came to be 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 ...
... later came to be 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 ...
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... later. Instead, as will be described more fully later in this book, Arabic algebra was taken up first in Italy and then Germany, where it became known as the Cossick Art, until by the sixteenth century it was known in every country in ...
... later. Instead, as will be described more fully later in this book, Arabic algebra was taken up first in Italy and then Germany, where it became known as the Cossick Art, until by the sixteenth century it was known in every country in ...
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... later. To understand how A treatise of algebra eventually came to be written in the early 1670s, and why it was not printed until 1685, it is helpful to know something about the state of English mathematical publishing during those ...
... later. To understand how A treatise of algebra eventually came to be written in the early 1670s, and why it was not printed until 1685, it is helpful to know something about the state of English mathematical publishing during those ...
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... later a diplomat. Over half of Digby's collection had been bequeathed to him by his former tutor, the Oxford mathematician Thomas Allen (1542–1632), who had rescued some of the mathematical manuscripts that Merton College had disposed ...
... later a diplomat. Over half of Digby's collection had been bequeathed to him by his former tutor, the Oxford mathematician Thomas Allen (1542–1632), who had rescued some of the mathematical manuscripts that Merton College had disposed ...
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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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