Description: Sourced from the front flap (image provided with listing): "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain. Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics—it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us.
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Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 390 Pages
Publication Name: Unknown Quantity : a Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
Language: English
Publisher: National Academies Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: Algebra / Abstract, General, Algebra / General, Geometry / Algebraic, Research & Methodology
Publication Year: 2006
Item Weight: 26.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Mathematics, Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: John Derbyshire
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
