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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... 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 DISCOURSE CONCERNING ALGEBRA.
... 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 DISCOURSE CONCERNING ALGEBRA.
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... letters continued to come his way not only during the war years but for the rest of his life. In 1653 he was confident about the significance of his work: 'I do not know that there hath been any [letter] deciphered save those that came ...
... letters continued to come his way not only during the war years but for the rest of his life. In 1653 he was confident about the significance of his work: 'I do not know that there hath been any [letter] deciphered save those that came ...
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... letter writer and corresponded from time to time with the finest mathematicians on the continent, from Fermat in the 1650s to Huygens and Leibniz in the 1690s.11 During the 1690s all Wallis's publications and some of his letters were ...
... letter writer and corresponded from time to time with the finest mathematicians on the continent, from Fermat in the 1650s to Huygens and Leibniz in the 1690s.11 During the 1690s all Wallis's publications and some of his letters were ...
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... letters are full of suggestions as to what pieces of work might be added to this or that edition, and he was particularly keen to make more and better algebra available to English readers. In 1667, for instance, he suggested that part ...
... letters are full of suggestions as to what pieces of work might be added to this or that edition, and he was particularly keen to make more and better algebra available to English readers. In 1667, for instance, he suggested that part ...
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... letters that Wallis wrote in response to queries from Collins in 1673 and 1676, and then included in A treatise of algebra.31 Newton's Epistola prior and Epistola posterior were written in June and October 1676, and the final third of A ...
... letters that Wallis wrote in response to queries from Collins in 1673 and 1676, and then included in A treatise of algebra.31 Newton's Epistola prior and Epistola posterior were written in June and October 1676, and the final third of A ...
Continguts
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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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