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Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 1992
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- Title
- Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
- Author
- Klein, Jacob
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486272893
- ISBN 13
- 9780486272894
- Item weight
- 0.9 pounds
- Series
- Book 186 of 303: Dover Books on Mathematics
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th–16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science — in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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