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The Greate Invention of Algebra - Jacqueline A. Stedall

The Greate Invention of Algebra

Thomas Harriot's Treatise on equations
Buch | Hardcover
334 Seiten
2003
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-852602-5 (ISBN)
CHF 219,20 inkl. MwSt
Sheds light on the work of Thomas Harriot (c1560-1621), an innovative thinker and practitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry, and algebra. This book focuses on one hundred and forty of Harriot's manuscript pages, those concerned with the structure and solution of equations.
The Greate Invention of Algebra' casts new light on the work of Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), an innovative thinker and practitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry, and algebra. Although on his death Harriot left behind over four thousand manuscript sheets, much of his work remains unpublished.

This book focuses on one hundred and forty of Harriot's manuscript pages, those concerned with the structure and solution of equations. The original material has been carefully ordered, translated, and annotated to provide the first complete edition of his work on this subject, and an extended introduction provides the reader with a lucid background to the work and explains its contents. Illustrations from the manuscripts provide fascinating reference material. The appendix discusses correlations between Harriot's manuscripts and the texts of his contemporaries Viète, Warner, and Torporley.

The clear and concise exposition makes this an excellent reference volume for historians of mathematics and those interested in the history of science. This is an important new resource for understanding the development of algebra in seventeenth-century England.

I. THE TREATISE ON EQUATIONS; OPERATIONS OF ARITHMETIC IN LETTERS

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.8.2003
Zusatzinfo 10 halftones
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 242 mm
Gewicht 731 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Algebra
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-852602-4 / 0198526024
ISBN-13 978-0-19-852602-5 / 9780198526025
Zustand Neuware
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