A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685A Discourse Concerning Algebra, provides a new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th Century.Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century. |
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1 A large discourse concerning algebra | 1 |
2 How algebra was entertained and cultivated in Europe | 19 |
William Oughtreds Clavis | 55 |
Thomas Harriot and his Treatise on equations | 88 |
uncovering the mathematics of John Pell | 126 |
John Walliss Arithmetica infinitorum | 155 |
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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 - 2003 |
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Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685 Online access with purchase: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online).: Mathematics module |
| Autor | Jacqueline A. Stedall |
| Col·laborador | Oxford University Press |
| Edició | il·lustrada |
| Editor | Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0198524951, 9780198524953 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 294 pàgines |
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