Taming the Unknown – A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century
Autor Victor J. Katz, Karen Hunger Parshallen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2014
evolved and how they relate. Victor Katz and Karen Parshall explore the history of algebra, from its roots in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, and India, through its development in the medieval Islamic world and medieval and early modern Europe, to its modern form in
the early twentieth century.Defining algebra originally as a collection of techniques for determining unknowns, the authors trace the development of these techniques from geometric beginnings in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and classical Greece. They show how similar problems were tackled in
Alexandrian Greece, in China, and in India, then look at how medieval Islamic scholars shifted to an algorithmic stage, which was further developed by medieval and early modern European mathematicians. With the introduction of a flexible and operative symbolism in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, algebra entered into a dynamic period characterized by the analytic geometry that could evaluate curves represented by equations in two variables, thereby solving problems in the physics of motion. This new symbolism freed mathematicians to study equations of degrees higher than two and
three, ultimately leading to the present abstract era.Taming the Unknown follows algebra's remarkable growth through different epochs around the globe.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780691149059
ISBN-10: 0691149054
Pagini: 504
Ilustrații: 29 halftones. 51 line illus. 3 maps.
Dimensiuni: 163 x 242 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 0691149054
Pagini: 504
Ilustrații: 29 halftones. 51 line illus. 3 maps.
Dimensiuni: 163 x 242 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press
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Descriere
What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. This title considers how these two seemingly different types of algebra evolved and how they relate.