A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685For 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 Viete) and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century. The text emphasises the contribution of Wallis, but substantialreference is also provided to other important mathematicans such as Harriot, Oughtred, Pell and Brouncker. |
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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 |
| 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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