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" A discourse concerning algebra : "
Jacqueline A. Stedall.
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BL
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1039917
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b794287
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Stedall, Jacqueline A.
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A discourse concerning algebra : : English algebra to 1685 /\ Jacqueline A. Stedall.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, ©2002.
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xii, 294 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0198524951
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: 9780198524953
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.
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| Abstract
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"For historians of mathematics and those interested in the history of science, A 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 seventeenth century. Including new research, this is the most detailed study to date of early modern English algebra." "The book builds on the history of algebra published in 1685 by John Wallis (Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford), and follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe (especially those of Viete), and the consequent revolution in English mathematics in the seventeenth century. The text emphasises the contribution of Wallis, but there are also chapters on Harriot, Oughtred, Pell and Brouncker."--Jacket.
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Algebra-- England-- History.
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Algebra.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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512/.0942
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QA151.S74 2002
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31.01bcl
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