Unknown quantity: a real and imaginary history of algebra
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Derbyshire, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. Joseph Henry Press ©2006
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The Unknown Quantity -- Four Thousand Years Ago -- The Father of Algebra -- Completion and Reduction -- Math Primer: Cubic and Quartic Equations -- Commerce and Competition -- Relief for the Imagination -- Universal Arithmetic -- The Lions Claw -- Math Primer: Roots of Unity -- The Assault on the Quintic -- Math Primer: Vector Spaces and Algebras -- The Leap into the Fourth Dimension -- An Oblong Arrangement of Terms -- Victoria's Brumous Isles -- Levels of Abstraction Math Primer: Field Theory -- Pistols at Dawn -- Lady of the Rings -- Math Primer: Algebraic Geometry -- Geometry Makes a Comeback -- Algebraic This, Algebraic That -- From Universal Arithmetic to Universal Algebra
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 374 pages, [8] pages of plates)
ISBN:0309656885
9780309656887
030909657X
9780309096577