Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
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'Here is the story of algebra.' With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. In stylish and accessible prose, Derbyshire shows how the invention of algebra was more than the beginning of a specific discipline of mathematics; it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that altered, forever, the ways in which we see and understand our world.
Author: John Derbyshire
Format: Paperback, 384 pages, 129mm x 199mm, 313 g
Published: 2008, Atlantic Books, United Kingdom
Genre: Popular Science
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'Here is the story of algebra.' With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. In stylish and accessible prose, Derbyshire shows how the invention of algebra was more than the beginning of a specific discipline of mathematics; it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that altered, forever, the ways in which we see and understand our world.
Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra