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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... methods of finding areas and volumes by the summation of infinite sequences. These books and some smaller pieces, including his inaugural lecture, were printed together in two volumes of collected works, the Operum mathematicorum (1656 ...
... methods of finding areas and volumes by the summation of infinite sequences. These books and some smaller pieces, including his inaugural lecture, were printed together in two volumes of collected works, the Operum mathematicorum (1656 ...
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... methods of equation-solving developed in Italy. Viète's real genius, however, was in seeing how to use those ideas to illuminate the newly available Greek texts of Diophantus and Pappus. For Viete, algebra was the key to understanding ...
... methods of equation-solving developed in Italy. Viète's real genius, however, was in seeing how to use those ideas to illuminate the newly available Greek texts of Diophantus and Pappus. For Viete, algebra was the key to understanding ...
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... methods of Oughtred, Harriot or Pell. Only once did he come close to a definition of algebra, as a subject chiefly concerned with solving equations,56 but his history ranged far beyond the limitations of this or any other contemporary ...
... methods of Oughtred, Harriot or Pell. Only once did he come close to a definition of algebra, as a subject chiefly concerned with solving equations,56 but his history ranged far beyond the limitations of this or any other contemporary ...
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... method, and I offer a possible reconstruction of his work using only the relatively limited mathematical tools that he had at his disposal. The chapter on Brouncker also compares the very different mathematical styles of Wallis and ...
... method, and I offer a possible reconstruction of his work using only the relatively limited mathematical tools that he had at his disposal. The chapter on Brouncker also compares the very different mathematical styles of Wallis and ...
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... methods and challenged commonly accepted ideas by teasing out a different story from written and material primary sources. Wallis was concerned from the beginning to set his history of algebra into an English context, and for his ...
... methods and challenged commonly accepted ideas by teasing out a different story from written and material primary sources. Wallis was concerned from the beginning to set his history of algebra into an English context, and for his ...
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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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