Title: Source Book in Mathematics, Vol. 1: The Field of Number / The Field of Algbra
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Publication Date: 1959
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0486605523
ISBN 13: 9780486605524
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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The field of number is covered in 24 articles which trace developments from the first steps in printed arithmetic, through selected number systems, to the early phases of modern number theory. Here is Dedekind on imaginary numbers, Euler on the use of e to represent 2.718..., Gauss on number congruence, Delamain on the slide rule. Pascual on his calculating machines, and more original articles. 18 articles on algebra include writings by Fermat, John Wallis, Newton, Leibniz, Abel, Galois, etc. They write on equations, symbolism, series, imaginary roots, early methods of solving the cubic and biquartic algebraic equations, and numerical equations of the higher degree.

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