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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... problems of church government arising from the abolition of the episcopacy in 1643. The outbreak of civil war in 1642, however, had already changed Wallis's fortunes in more important ways. In the first year of the war he was shown a ...
... problems of church government arising from the abolition of the episcopacy in 1643. The outbreak of civil war in 1642, however, had already changed Wallis's fortunes in more important ways. In the first year of the war he was shown a ...
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... problems. In the early 1670s he wrote the greater part of A treatise of algebra (though it was not published until 1685) and in his later years he edited a number of Greek mathematical and musical texts from manuscript. He was a ...
... problems. In the early 1670s he wrote the greater part of A treatise of algebra (though it was not published until 1685) and in his later years he edited a number of Greek mathematical and musical texts from manuscript. He was a ...
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... problems and quarrelled with Blaise Pascal over the latter's dismissive treatment of his work on the cycloid,13 and in 1667–68 he went to considerable lengths to contest the work of two otherwise little known French mathematicians ...
... problems and quarrelled with Blaise Pascal over the latter's dismissive treatment of his work on the cycloid,13 and in 1667–68 he went to considerable lengths to contest the work of two otherwise little known French mathematicians ...
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... problems, theorems or short treatises on the back of established texts. Collins' 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 ...
... problems, theorems or short treatises on the back of established texts. Collins' 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 ...
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... problems in number theory. Neglect of 'Accommodations', or applications, was one of the few restrictions Wallis maintained; in every other respect he followed wherever his subject led him, so that his text is a mixture of historical ...
... problems in number theory. Neglect of 'Accommodations', or applications, was one of the few restrictions Wallis maintained; in every other respect he followed wherever his subject led him, so that his text is a mixture of historical ...
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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